Miscellaneous Hacks - Facades Resurrection - Run multiple unique sites with one VB database (BETA) (3.7-4)

This mod is being released AS IS...

The original mod was moved to the Graveyard. I suggest you read up on it here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229858

I did not program this mod and can not provide any support.

The original coder was: ibautocommunity

He marked this as "resuable code" so I have re-uploaded it so someone might find this and further develop it.

If you can develop this please include credit to the original author- I didn't change anything but the version number and thread URL so I need no credit.

Please release updates on vBulletin.org for the benefit of the community.

Thank You.

PS. According to vBulletin you MUST have a separate license for each domain with unique content so this mod does not allow you to make multiple sites for free.

Use at your own risk. I do not even have this installed on my own site but it has been reported to work with 3.7.x, 3.8.x and 4.0.x versions... Make sure you make backups before testing on a live site.

This info was from the original post when this mod was released:

NOTES:
We didn't have any plans to ever release this product; but lots of people expressed interest in having this feature. We are releasing the product as is, it's very basic but has proven to work rather well on vB 3.8 and also happens to work on 4.0. We do not have plans to expand this product or continue development - we do encourage anyone interested to use the code to continue developing the product. For example, it does not currently provide any support for displaying different CMS based on the domain settings, but that could be a pretty cool feature! Sorry, but no support will be provided for this product; this is ideal for all the do-it-yourselfers on vB.org and may not be the best product for the beginners!

What this product does:
This product will allow you to use 1 vBulletin installation and admin control panel for what will look like "different" vBulletin forums and domains. For example, domain-x.com has it's own style + forum categories; domain-y.com also has it's own style + forum categories; but they use the same vBulletin installation and control panel. It also has options to customize vBAdvanced (if you have it) and limit the search results to the specific domain.

What this product does NOT do:
This product will not allow you to get around vBulletin licensing; you will need a separate license for each domain.

How does this work?
The product detects custom domains and sub-domains; once detected, it shows a predefined style and forumid range to the users. This makes it look like you have two or more different vBulletin sites.

INSTALL AND CONFIG:
* Please note that you will have to already have the hosts configured before adding them into the configuration in vBulletin. Talk to your web-hosting provider to make sure your new domains and sub-domains actually resolve and work.
Install XML in product manager
Go to vB Options or vB Settings and find IB Facades options
Read examples and basic instructions in the option screen

LICENSE AND LEGAL INFO
Product License & Liability Disclaimer
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Copyright (c) 2009, InternetBrands, llc.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:


Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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Under the following conditions, the name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

As you can see this mod was originally released by Internet Brands.

[BirdOPrey5]

Reserved

[Manoel J?nior]

Demo please!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

Demo please!

I can't demo because as mentioned I don't have this installed on a publicly viewable install. There were a couple of demos mentioned in the original thread which I linked too, but I don't know if they are still using it or not.

[soundbarrierpro]

Would this be a good idea? If you've got several "unique" sites which all rely on one DB, and that db takes a dump, you don't lose one site. You lose several. That is of course unless it's salvageable.

Just playing devils advocate in one of those, "worse case scenarios".

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Would this be a good idea? If you've got several "unique" sites which all rely on one DB, and that db takes a dump, you don't lose one site. You lose several. That is of course unless it's salvageable.

Just playing devils advocate in one of those, "worse case scenarios".

If you're properly backing up your database you should NEVER lose anything but up to the last backup which should be less than 24 hours of data...

The benefits of a single membership database, single install from which to administer and install mods and such would outweigh the chance of a major disaster IMO...several sites out there work like this now but they don't use this particular mod (or if they do they don't admit it.)

In its current state this mod might not be ready for prime time but it's a really good start.

[goblues]

Does anyone know why this was moved to the graveyard in the first place? Security issues, support issues, etc?

[Eduardo Leon]

well as i see this's in BETA stage . and have some troubles .

in my opinion is done and i try to run this in one server - "private"

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by goblues

Does anyone know why this was moved to the graveyard in the first place? Security issues, support issues, etc?

We had a discussion about this on vbulletin.com, I was told by other users it was probably at the request of the author- there wasn't any known security exploit or major error- it seems like Internet Brands simply decided for whatever reasons they no longer wanted to further develop this mod. Because it is so unique I (and others) felt it would be of service to the community to re-release it in hopes it might spur further development.

[we_are_borg]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Would this be a good idea? If you've got several "unique" sites which all rely on one DB, and that db takes a dump, you don't lose one site. You lose several. That is of course unless it's salvageable.

Just playing devils advocate in one of those, "worse case scenarios".

A few words backup, backup then setup an test enviroment where you can test it out never do this live.