Miscellaneous Hacks - vB 3.8 - 4.0 vB Facades: Different, multiple forums running off 1 vB installation

Removing the product; gathering requirements and specs.

[ibautocommunity]

So, the best example of this would be.

http://www.honda-tech.com has its own style and forum id's ; but http://www.hondamarketplace.com is completely different. They are actually the same site, split into two completely separate forums but sharing the same products, users and everything else in admincp.

[johnrizz]

Wow! thats cool! you can use your 4.0 along with your 3.8.X LIC, together!

[ibautocommunity]

Originally Posted by stone0075

Wow! thats cool! you can use your 4.0 along with your 3.8.X LIC, together!

That would be a negatory. This is one installation of vBulletin, so it's either 3 or 4.

[aryamansour]

Would this work with 3 forums installed on one domain? (I have 3 licenses)

This is what I am using, but it is not working: (Installed this mod on the first forum (/audi), wanting to share certain sub forums with the other 2 forums (/mb, /bmw) and share the users with all 3 forums)

[dtmscene.com/mb]
bburl=www.dtmscene.com/mb
homeurl=www.dtmscene.com/audi
catids=1,2,3,4
styleid=4

I may be placing the wrong catids, not sure. I am getting the catid found at the end of the url when I visit one of the sub forums.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[ibautocommunity]

Originally Posted by aryamansour

Would this work with 3 forums installed on one domain? (I have 3 licenses)

This is what I am using, but it is not working: (Installed this mod on the first forum (/audi), wanting to share certain sub forums with the other 2 forums (/mb, /bmw) and share the users with all 3 forums)

[dtmscene.com/mb]
bburl=www.dtmscene.com/mb
homeurl=www.dtmscene.com/audi
catids=1,2,3,4
styleid=4

I may be placing the wrong catids, not sure. I am getting the catid found at the end of the url when I visit one of the sub forums.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

That's not what this product is designed to do; your application is different.

dtmscene.com/mb is not a domain. This product would only work for you if you had a domain configuration like:

audi.dtmscene.com
mb.dtmscene.com
bmw.dtmscene.com

or bmwdtmscene.com, audidtmscene.com; you see those are different domains and sub-domains.

[aryamansour]

Thank you for clearing that up. I was wondering, would you be able to point me in the right direction so I can get this to work. Would I have to purchase other domains or purchase/add a sub domain to what I already have. Or, is there another product that would be able to do this without the need for other sub/domains?

Thank you again

[Universal]

Thankyou for this, although I am concerned if this will continue to work as 4.0 continues to grow. I wish someone could make an application so we could make just the one database for people to be able to login to about 10 forums at once. I would love vB to create that possibility instead of people having to outsource. I know alot of people who would love to see this.

[fattony69]

I want to personally thank you for this. I hated created multiple communities and having my members reapply. Just a few questions.

1. Does it move just members or does posts, threads, etc apart as well?
2. Does this have to be a fresh install to work?

/me nominates for MOTM!

[NokStar]

Buying another license is okay. sharing users and posts db is great!
Nice idea. We need people to keep this going!!

[ibautocommunity]

Originally Posted by fattony69

I want to personally thank you for this. I hated created multiple communities and having my members reapply. Just a few questions.

1. Does it move just members or does posts, threads, etc apart as well?
2. Does this have to be a fresh install to work?

[high]* fattony69 nominates for MOTM![/high]

You can start at any time, but obviously the URL's to the old posts might break when you create sub domains and assigned forumid's to them.