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Multiple Sites, Shared Content, One Joomla Installation
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- Steve Amerige
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I have multiple domains for which I'd like to have the ability to share the same database (users, articles, modules, plugins, etc.), but create menus and organize module positions differently depending on the domain name. And, it would be desirable that each domain could have its own template, or at the least choose a different preset style. This would enable the production of related websites that leverages common content.
I found the Joomla extensions category Multiple Sites and I found the docs.joomla.org document Multiple Domains and Web Sites in a single Joomla! installation .
But, I'd like to find out what are RocketTheme's "Best Practices" so that I do this right the first time. Can anyone share what is felt to be the approach that works best with RocketTheme templates? Please feel free to recommend commercial or free extensions, coding techniques, etc. - Steve Amerige,
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- Ben Lee
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If you're a code guy, you might want to look into Nooku. It's still alpha right now, but been hearing good things...
http://blog.nooku.org/2010/12/nooku-server-joomla-on-steroids/
Some component developers are going strictly with Nooku like Anahita and it looks like K2.
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- VisPrada
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Hey Steve,
Did you ever find your solution for this?
I'm wanting a similar thing. Actually running my main site and then running a slight variation of that site hidden behind the scenes in a subdirectory. Both versions would pull from the same database.
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- VisPrada
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I've never gotten back to implementing this so I cannot say for certain. Apparently Wordpress is much better equipped to handle this than Joomla. Though I have not ever tried Wordpress nor have I kept up to date with the most recent Joomla so you'll need to do a little research there.
There are a couple of 3rd party components that do this. Search the Joomla Extensions directory and you'll find them. JMS2win looked like the best one, it seems pretty popular. It looks pretty involved as well.
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