How would I make Vbulletins on different sites with one DB

[royli57]

Hi

I run a forum on a portal that also has sites in different countries and languages. I want to offer VBulletin on some of the other sites that use english, namely Canada and Australia. I want to make it so that each site has its own folder for the forum, but the threads and user-database are all shared for the english sites.

http://forums.crossmap.com - this is the main forum
http://au.crossmap.com/forums - this is a mirror forum
http://ca.crossmap.com/forums - this is a mirror forum

Each forum should exist in its own folder on different servers but connect to the central DB. Each forum should be customizable so that for all purposes, it is its own forum.

I am wondering about what would happen if one country sets the style - it seems like it would be modified on the DB level which would affect the other countries.

Any ideas where to begin?

Thanks

Roy

Crossmap Christian Search

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by royli57

Hi

I run a forum on a portal that also has sites in different countries and languages. I want to offer VBulletin on some of the other sites that use english, namely Canada and Australia. I want to make it so that each site has its own folder for the forum, but the threads and user-database are all shared for the english sites.

http://forums.crossmap.com - this is the main forum
http://au.crossmap.com/forums - this is a mirror forum
http://ca.crossmap.com/forums - this is a mirror forum

Each forum should exist in its own folder on different servers but connect to the central DB. Each forum should be customizable so that for all purposes, it is its own forum.

I am wondering about what would happen if one country sets the style - it seems like it would be modified on the DB level which would affect the other countries.

Any ideas where to begin?

Thanks

Roy

Crossmap Christian Search

I am not positive but this may require seperate licernse for each if you want to make them appear each as its own forum. To get a final anwser you should contact support@vbulletin.com

[royli57]

Originally Posted by Zachery

I am not positive but this may require seperate licernse for each if you want to make them appear each as its own forum. To get a final anwser you should contact support@vbulletin.com

I was thinking about that, but it seems that it would be okay as I am allowed one instance of an installation. I would only be adding interfaces to access the DB.

But licensing aside, is it even technically possible to do this in a simple way?

[?J?stMe?]

I too am interested in this. We have a few 'sub groups' in our forums that I'd like to allow to manage their own 'forum' with sections, styles, etc.

Another board has a similar hack here .

I posted about this same thing, but I'll just post here since you've alreadt gotten some responses and seem to need the exaxt same thing

Thanks.