Major Additions - CERBERUS: 1 vB4: runs multiple domains with custom styles, forums, universal login

***Attention: This product is currently UNSUPPORTED***

We would like to release an Alpha version of the vBulletin4 Cerberus product. This product allows you to create one vBulletin4 installation which can power unlimited number of domains and sub-domains; while allowing to customize each domain differently to make it look like different sites or sections. Domains will have one universal admincp and user login information.

***Example***
www.supercoolautoforum.com - main site, all forums
ferarri.supercoolautoforum.com - custom style and forums, same login
bmw.supercoolautoforum.com- custom style and forums, same login
honda.supercoolautoforum.com - custom style and forums, same login
supercoolmotorcycleforum.com - custom style and forums, same login

*** Why are you releasing this, I want more features?! ***

This is a very simple product; we believe that the basic functionality provided in this product will satisfy a lot of communities - and since the product is simple - it will be easy to extend it and modify it to work for your custom community requirements.

Overview of Current Features:

• One shared installation of vBulletin 4
• One shared user account on all domains
• Custom Style for each domain
• Custom Forum listing for each domain

Known Issues:

• CMS and Blogs are currently not configured to have special domain-specific categories and sections. CMS is shared across all sites although the appearance will be different for each domain.

Project Contributors: s.lauderdale;m.biddle;a.ahn; anders

[KW802]

Originally Posted by El Intocable

By doing this I believe I will lose all the Template edits I have done to the forum, not a good idea to do. maybe there will be another way to correct this

You shouldn't lose anything at all.

Originally Posted by El Intocable

I have done everything on this thread and still cant get it to work correctly with the style distortion I currently have. lol

Any help or any other ideas?
Thanks guys

Did you see what Sticky's issue was about 7 or 8 posts up? His forum path settings were wrong. Head into "ACP => Settings => Options => Site Name / URL / Contact Details" and then verify your values for "Forum URL" and "Homepage URL" are correct.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by El Intocable

I will continue to read this thread to see if there will be a better way to do this. I really need this mod for sure. If anyone willing to help me out I will appreciate even If I have to make a small donation for the help. As I see all I need is the configuration because the sub-domain is done and anything else. Is just the style break up the problem now.

Thanks you guys a lot

It seems hard at first but it really isn't that bad.

I also asked you a few times what version you were running...

[sticky]

Originally Posted by El Intocable

By doing this I believe I will lose all the Template edits I have done to the forum, not a good idea to do. maybe there will be another way to correct this

No, you will not.

[FReeSTER]

Originally Posted by KW802

You shouldn't lose anything at all.


Did you see what Sticky's issue was about 7 or 8 posts up? His forum path settings were wrong. Head into "ACP => Settings => Options => Site Name / URL / Contact Details" and then verify your values for "Forum URL" and "Homepage URL" are correct.

ok, everything seen to be ok on that part but maybe the settings I have on this mod are incorrect. I will PM you my settings to see if you see anything wrong.

Thank you so much for helping

[FReeSTER]

Originally Posted by sticky

It seems hard at first but it really isn't that bad.

I also asked you a few times what version you were running...

I have vB 4.0.8 pl2

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Basically you go to the plugin named "Forum Display"

Look through the code, look for all instances if $forumid and change it to something else, like $forumidx

If you want this is the entire plugin with the variable name changed to $forumidz

Just wanted to say thank you It was very simple in actuality looking at it, no big deal.

I can definitely see why this mod isn't supported though, lol.

Thanks.

[sticky]

Having an issue uploading attachments on the second domain, wondering if it is a similar fix like the no permission issue?

Edit: Actually, attachments on both aren't being allowed to be uploaded.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by sticky

Having an issue uploading attachments on the second domain, wondering if it is a similar fix like the no permission issue?

Edit: Actually, attachments on both aren't being allowed to be uploaded.

Check the folders CHMOD permissions, in Filezilla it's right click the folder and choose permissions, if it's still 644 that won't work, most likely it needs to be 755 or 777 and while your at it, it's always best to confirm if a index.php file is in that same folder and if not upload a blank one so no one can simply view the folder and all files.

Edit: Now that I read what BirdofPrey put I realize you may be referring to this:

Originally Posted by KW802

OK, had a strange issue...

I have my forums grouped together in three major cats. For example...

Category 100
- Forum 101
- Forum 102
- Forum 103

Category 200
- Forum 201
- Forum 202
- Forum 203

Category 300
- Forum 301
- Forum 302
- Forum 303

I have Cerberus configured so that Domain A has access to Category 100 & 200 while Domain B has access to Category 300.

While posting on Domain A in Forum 102 (just for example, but really any forum on Domain A) I was getting a 'No permissions' error. To get around that I disabled the unset permissions line from the "Forum Display" plugin used by Cerberus. Did not solve my problem but allowed me to continue so I could experiment. When I did continue my new thread that I was posting in Forum 102 ended up being posted in Forum 303!

So I poked around for a bit in the "Forum Display" plugin again and enabled the 'debug' lines so I could see what was going on in what sequence. Sure enough Forum 303 was the last forum ID that was being evaluated and, since I was on Domain A and not Domain B, it was removing that forum ID from the cache & permissions.

Going back to posting a new thread I did a view source on the page and could see that even though I was posting to Forum 102 in the URL the various buttons (eg: preview, save, etc.) were all referencing forum ID 303 instead. That led me to believe then that the variable $forumid being used in the plugin was not being preserved as a local scope variable and was being used by the rest of vB, hence why since forum ID 303 was the last one evaluated then that is where it was thinking I was trying to post to.

To confirm I changed all references in that plugin from $forumid to $forumidx to make it unique and repeated my experiments. Success!

This was with vBulletin 4.0.8 running on PHP 5.2.12 using the version of Cerberus in this thread.

Originally Posted by iBaker

Thanks KW...having the same problem...couldn't post in any of the different domains due to no permissions...changed all references to forumid to forumidx in that plugin and it worked.

Can you think of any ramifications of doing this?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Check the folders CHMOD permissions, in Filezilla it's right click the folder and choose permissions, if it's still 644 that won't work, most likely it needs to be 755 or 777 and while your at it, it's always best to confirm if a index.php file is in that same folder and if not upload a blank one so no one can simply view the folder and all files.

Thank you, but which folder is it that I'm looking to change permissions on? If it is attachments under images it is set to 777.

[BirdOPrey5]

I was able to upload attachments on both domains but my attachments are in the database...

Are your attachments in the database or file system?
Admin CP -> Attachments -> Attachment Storage Type