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Alb
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Re: About multidomains

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CyberAlien wrote:You'll need 2 IPs for that, so you could do 2 completely different unrelated installations.
Hmm .. goal is to have one site with one registration form and one member account where people can create forum on SiteA or SiteB. They create their forums via the main site and not directly from SiteA or SiteB.
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That's tricky, but it can be done with 3 accounts: 1 for SiteA, 1 for SiteB, 1 for your website. Create custom domains register.sitea.com and register.siteb.com on those websites, then on main website when user selects domain redirect him to one of two registration pages. It would be similar to what one customer has done on http://fireforumz.com/
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In fact, I was thinking of something that involve mysql.
You register on a site, and this site know how to create forums on siteA and siteB via sql so you don't need to create by yourself an account on siteA and siteB .. And siteA / siteB can't be accessed by visitors.
Cool things is that you can have a list of all your forums on the mainsite, and differents people can create myforum.siteA.com and myforum.siteB.com
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That can be done too, but you'll need to write your own registration script, or copy parts of default one. You'll need to add entry to forums table, install that forum's database, create directories for that forum and write few cache files.
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CyberAlien wrote:That's tricky, but it can be done with 3 accounts: 1 for SiteA, 1 for SiteB, 1 for your website. Create custom domains register.sitea.com and register.siteb.com on those websites, then on main website when user selects domain redirect him to one of two registration pages. It would be similar to what one customer has done on http://fireforumz.com/
:) mentioned!!!

but yea i find it easier to do it that way and it makes better seo with the register.fireforumz.com and signup.fireforumz.com domains...
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That gives me ideas...
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