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

[J6488EEA8E90]

tagged for future use. looks great

[desi-boy]

wow don't tell me

it's possibll

gr8 man Gr8
plez some More SS

thnxxx

[cloferba]

does this work on a shared hosting account?

[GeorgeB85]

See hacks like this would be awesome, but it is beyond stupid to have a valid vbulletin license for each subdomain like sub.maindomain.com. It is still on the maindomain.com domain, so there should be no need for licenses for each subdomain.

[Nephalim]

Anyone have this working? The sample forum URL goes to a error page

[kayobrussy]

I cant understand how is works.

Any tutorial?

[Nephalim]

Originally Posted by kayobrussy

I cant understand how is works.

Any tutorial?

You can have two different domain names like:
kayobrussyTRUCKS.com
and
kayobrussyCARS.com
They both go to one VBulletin forum, but when a User clicks either it will have a different style / skin / forum. But it's just ONE VBulletin forum. I think.

We're looking for something like this last week as using two domains currently with two different styles in Our one forum. Is not working.

[Alfa1]

Thanks for releasing this. Some questions:

- if a user logs in on domain 1, will the user be visible on who's online on domain 2?
- can a vb3 and a vb4 installation be combined? i.e. domain 1 runs vb3, while domain 2 runs vb4.

[Overbr]

hello, thanks for sharing the mod.
But please, you need a tutorial on how to make it work, install the vb 4.0.8 and it did absolutely nothing, even configuring the cpanel.
We have 4 domains

What to do. Htacess usage?
How do the targeting?

What is the correct installation process?

thanks

[Nephalim]

Just tried it on a test site and it did nothing. Threw 404 errors and a few DB errors. So we uninstalled. Hope you get it sorted out because this sounds really promising!!