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

[Mikelito]

So here is my forum

www.miosito.it/forum/forum.php (for now even though I have nothing csm version suite)

I created two sub-domains

www.en.miosito.it

www.es.miosito.it

I created on DirectAdmin a new domain pointing to a www.en.miosito.it => http://www.miosito.it/

I put in the configuration of this plugin:

[www.miosito.it]
bbtitle=miosito
bburl=www.miosito.it/forum
homeurl=www.miosito.it
catids=1138
styleid=6
cookiedomain=.miosito.it


[www.en.miosito.it]
bbtitle=miosito english
bburl=www.en.miosito.it/forum
homeurl=www.en.miosito.it
catids=1140,1141
styleid=6
cookiedomain=.miosito.it


I may have it wrong when I go on www.en.miosito.it bounced back directly to http://www.miosito.it/ - and do not see any change?

[BirdOPrey5]

Right off hand your "homeurl" in the top group of settings isn't a URL.

[Mikelito]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Right off hand your "homeurl" in the top group of settings isn't a URL.

Update

[BirdOPrey5]

Are you sure you have the right URL's, when I click on your www.en.miosito.it link no server is found, when I click on http://www.miosito.it/ I don't see anything that resembles a forum and http://www.miosito.it/forum/ isn't found at all either.

[Mikelito]

But are an example link

[sticky]

Originally Posted by KW802

- The reason it is failing currently is the 'die' command at the bottom of it; comment out the echo, print_r, and die commands and it'll work then as expected (see bullet above).

Hope this doesn't sound stupid but by comment out you mean erase, correct?

[BirdOPrey5]

To "comment out" a line of php code you put two slashes before it: //

Example

PHP Code:

$x = 1000; 


commented out:

PHP Code:

// $x = 1000; 


This means the system will ignore the lines but you don't erase them in case you need them again later.

[sticky]

^ Thank you

[RichieBoy67]

Does this mod require a forum to have a license for another forum installed as a sub domain?

Thanks

[jdj]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Does this mod require a forum to have a license for another forum installed as a sub domain?

Thanks

I don't know. But this mod is a brilliant idea and if I could get the thing to work I wouldn't mind paying for more than one license although I'd prefer a half-way house where I paid an increment per TLD: There is a benefit in allowing users to access your site from multiple domains and/or output their content to different TLDs from one site. But there's a huge burden of admin involved in having to manually allocate them to more than one forum.