Multiple domains with a single IPB 4.x instance.

[The Honor Empire]

Recently I purchased Pages and am attempting to bring everything under one umbrella rather than having to use multiple third party tools. With 3.4, I used ipbwi and a lot of custom code to accomplish this. I can't figure out how to use Pages with multiple domains under a single account with IPB 4.x.

Example:

Account root
└───public_html
    ├───domain2.com
    │   └───testsite
    │                   index.php
    │
    ├───domain3.com
    │   └───testsite
    │                   index.php
    │
    └───PrimayDomain.com
        └───testsite
                        init.php

I would like domain2.com and domain3.com to have their own custom set of Pages (which I would group under Pages in the IPB suite and create themes for each "site"). Everything is located on the same hosting account and "appear" as separate sites, but all have the same backend system (e.g. IPB). Each site would have a unique theme, have static content, have dynamic "news" content  (pulled from threads), submission forms, etc... (This is how I currently do it with ipbwi).

I've downloaded and am using the custom index.php file from here: http://community.invisionpower.com/4docs/administration/pages/using-pages-under-your-community-root-r100/

I also turned off friendly URL's so I do not need to mess with the .htaccess files for the time being (for my testsites).

However, domain1.com/testsite or domain2.com/testsite just redirects  to the PrimaryDomain.com/testsite/

e.g. domain1.com/testsite/?app=cms&module=pages&controller=page&path=articles.html will redirect to the default articles page on the PrimaryDomain.com/testsite

I also have a handful of subdomains on the PrimaryDomain.com that would have the same features as the secondary domains.

Sorry for the length of this post, but in summary.., is it possible to accomplish what I am trying to do with IPB's default set of tools in 4.x?  And if so, how? If not, is this a feature that is planned?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Rhett]

I'm afraid this isn't an option currently, our software is licensed to one domain, and uses one domain, you would need three licenses in this case and tie them together with ips connect perhaps to share logins.

 

 

[The Honor Empire]

Ah, I see, it's not my intention to have multiple instances of IPB running. I was hoping to have a single set of forums/content with multiple front-ends for apperances sake (each front-end would pull dynamic content from a forum category). I'll have to see if I can take another approach while retaining the Pages applicaiton (as it makes it far easier for my technically challegened admins to maintain), maybe creating a cron job to statically output the Pages at a set interval. It's becoming a hassle to keep code up-to-date with IPBWI and IPB.

[Rhett]

It would be much easier just to create forum categories for your needs here, you can even assign a different skin to each one. You could do something like below.

www.domain.com - main site - pages set as default.

www.domain.com/forum1  - set this as a direct link in your header, assign a skin to it and all sub forums

www.domain.com/forum2 - same as above, assign a different skin to it if needed

www.domain.com/forum3 - same ^

You could have the experience of three sites all rolled into one database and back end

 

 

 

[The Honor Empire]

I am going to do something similar to the category themes mentioned above. I am looking at the database option under Pages as well for creating unique "pages" for each individual site along with an Alias or AliasMatch in my httpd.conf file to serve pages from IPB.