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

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by 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.

Having one forum running on vb3 and another on vb4 wont be possible since this hack only allows a single installation to "operate" on several domains and/or subdomains.

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I would like to know if lastonline cookie affects all forums or just the one visited.

[War.Frog]

Originally Posted by 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.

Agree 100%. Running a thousand different sites from one domain and using multiple subdomains appears to be completely within the licensing terms of vBulletin.

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Will this work with 4.1.0 Beta 1?

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Originally Posted by 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!!

Working great for me. I was getting ready to start 2 new forums, so used them as a test..

http://www.worldofcataclysm.net/ and http://www.hoosierforums.com/

I must say well done! I like how each domain can even use it's own facebook connection API. A helpful feature for someone like me as my two sites would have nothing in common would be able to tie Admin accounts to select which username to post under. Also custom profile fields based on domain would be amazing.

Originally Posted by COBRAws

I would like to know if lastonline cookie affects all forums or just the one visited.

I'm gonna guess based on the "cookiedomain=.domain-1.com" in the config for each domain, that stuff based on domains don't share same cookies, but things like user profile do since it is a unique global.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

if a user logs in on domain 1, will the user be visible on who's online on domain 2?

Yes, all domains share same WoL and account profile.

[Overbr]

Originally Posted by Stabatha

Working great for me. I was getting ready to start 2 new forums, so used them as a test..

http://www.worldofcataclysm.net/ and http://www.hoosierforums.com/

I must say well done! I like how each domain can even use it's own facebook connection API. A helpful feature for someone like me as my two sites would have nothing in common would be able to tie Admin accounts to select which username to post under. Also custom profile fields based on domain would be amazing.

which procedure you did for installation?
You can say step by step?

tks

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Sure, was easy, first I just imported the product.xml then once it completed I went into setting --> options and scrolled down all the way to the bottom and selected vB Cerberus and then just filled in the box in the top right corner based on the example in the left side.

Like this..

[hoosierforums.com]
bbtitle=Hoosier Forums
bburl=hoosierforums.com
homeurl=hoosierforums.com
catids=1,2,3,4,5
styleid=2
cookiedomain=.hoosierforums.com
facebookappid=Your_appid_here
facebooksecret=Your_fb_secret_here

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Cookies per domain don't seem to work. I logged into worldofcataclysm.net using my admin account name. Then logged in in another browser tab to hoosierforums.com using the admin account I made for it. Afterwards going to a new page on my 1st domain I was now logged in as second domains Admin instead of the 1st domains.

[Overbr]

Originally Posted by Stabatha

Sure, was easy, first I just imported the product.xml then once it completed I went into setting --> options and scrolled down all the way to the bottom and selected vB Cerberus and then just filled in the box in the top right corner based on the example in the left side.

Like this..

[hoosierforums.com]
bbtitle=Hoosier Forums
bburl=hoosierforums.com
homeurl=hoosierforums.com
catids=1,2,3,4,5
styleid=2
cookiedomain=.hoosierforums.com
facebookappid=Your_appid_here
facebooksecret=Your_fb_secret_here

in their domain are configured as host? Park or in vps and domains in differentiated services?
Why did the installation, but when I try to access www.xxxx.com he does absolutely nothing.
I have a forum in the same subdomain http://forum.xxxx.com directing and pointing at him with http://www.XXX1.com http://www.XXX2.com or no directions.

The problem here is not to be directing the pointing to the domain .. do not know if this term is well
If I could pass the config used on your VPS / HOST thank

[Santori]

Each forum can have his own style, this is an vb native option.

I only see usable this mod for acumulate domains.

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Originally Posted by Overbr

in their domain are configured as host? Park or in vps and domains in differentiated services?
Why did the installation, but when I try to access www.xxxx.com he does absolutely nothing.
I have a forum in the same subdomain http://forum.xxxx.com directing and pointing at him with http://www.XXX1.com http://www.XXX2.com or no directions.

The problem here is not to be directing the pointing to the domain .. do not know if this term is well
If I could pass the config used on your VPS / HOST thank

I use cPanel. I first created domain 1 in WHM and gave it a static IP. I then went into cPanel -> AddOn Domains and added Domain2 as a addon domain. For Document Root: I used just public_html so it shares same directory as domain one.