Multiple domain support & vBulletin?

[ScEmH]

Hello. I help maintain a site that has roughly 30 domains, and for quite a while now the other staff and myself of the site has had major difficulties in making the vBulletin support all of our domains.

What are the problems? vBulletin uses the value for "Forum URL" (Under Site Name / URL / Contact Details) to construct most of its links. Now that's fine for anyone who happens to view our site with the same domain used in Forum URL, however for anyone using a different domain they're going to experience many problems. Problems such as not being able to log in, links that use domains other than the one the user is using.. etc.

We've tried leaving Forum URL blank, setting it to ./forums or /forums, but in each case there's always something broken with it, be it IE support or broken links in the Email Verification / Subscription Notifications sent from the forums.

We've considered setting $vbulletin->options['bburl'] to $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], which may work. However, I've no idea how to properly make a plugin do this for me.

I'm really out of ideas for fixing this. Anyone else experienced this problem or know of a fix? Any help will be appreciated.

[murratti]

yeah same problem for me

[Paul M]

Do it at web server level, not vbulletin. If you run apache, make all the domains aliases of the main domain.

[Bestrafung]

Any word on how to fix this for VBA? The forum itself seems fine but VB Advanced still uses the main URL on some links. I'm trying to figure out a rewrite rule for apache or any other method but nothing is working and I don't know what I'm doing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Disregard my last post, I simply removed the files from the list in VBA settings to prevent it from adding the forum URL.

[ZippySLC]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Do it at web server level, not vbulletin. If you run apache, make all the domains aliases of the main domain.

That's easy to do, but vb's internally generated links will only use whatever is designated as "forum url" in the admin cp.