Multiple sites

[Jaxx]

I'm hoping I have the right place to post this. If not, it'll be moved.

But I currently admin one site that will be adding a 2nd domain, possibly a third. And we wanted to do something, but not sure about how to go about it.

What we want is to have several sites, i.e. web1, web2, web3.

Now when someone goes to web1.com, they would get a particular homepage with news for that particular site. They click on the forums, they get 'general forums' plus that site specific forums.

And then at same time someone goes to web2, they get different news for that site and when they click on forums they also get the 'general forums' plus their specific site forums.

Now, I do understand this: Your forum is accessable from multiple domains and your forums are configured to show/hide certain forums based on the domain. This is not OK and requires an active vBulletin license for each domain. In this situation the forums appear to have separate content thereby making them separate forums in the eyes of the license agreement. Your forum content needs to be the same for each domain in order to qualify as a single forum.

Question I guess is if we have a total of 3 licenses, how could we possibly still use only one forum install? Or is there a way to share a set of forums on 3 sites but still have seperate ones for each?

I hope that makes some sense.

[CanCanCase]

I posted the following over at vB.com... It might belong here instead, and is this another way of looking at what you're trying to do?

Scenario:
Site A and Site B are both about Fishing. Site A focuses mostly on East Coast fishing, and Site B on the West Coast. With both sites' admins cooperating, would it be possible to link to sections of each others' database such that Site A could have a forum or sub forum about "Washington Fishing" that used content from the same named forum on Site B? Also, the vice versa... Site B wants a forum on "Florida Fishing" to use content from the corresponding section of Site A...

Each forum applies their own styles/themes/etc., so it's just a matter of the user and post content tables, right? Seems similar to 2 sites sharing a common user database between them?

Alternatively, is there a way to set up a "private" RSS feed for all posts in "Washington Fishing" on Site B to which Site A can subscribe using the RSS Feed Manager?

Is my idea radical enough to involve code changes to the stock vB? Does this really belong over at vBulletin.org???

Any input or help is greatly appreciated...

-Case

[nighthalk]

I would think you could just write a mod with if statements that will only show what forum id you want to show.
Something like this below.

if ( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "domain.com" ) {
code to show specific forums.
}
else if ( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "domain2.com" ) {
code to show specific forums for this domain
}
else {
code to show default forum.
}

Would take a bit of playing with but I sure it could be done.

I do believe it would only need one licence this way. Don't quote me on the licence part