Hi,

I have several domains set up at my host. Each domain is a subdomain but will show up as individual domain in the browser. Example:

Main-Domain: www.main.com
Sub-Domain1: sub1.main.com will show as www.sub1.de
Sub-Domain2: sub2.main.com will show as www.sub2.de

The sub-domains are just simple directories under the main domain so that sub1 for example is located at /home/username/www/sub1

I want to set up b2evolution to put several blogs on my subdomains while installing the core files only once. I found the following hack:

1. I copied index.php and the content of the directories "skins" and "xmlsrv" to the domain, where the blog should appear. (i.e. /home/username/www/sub1/)

2. I changed this in index.php:

// M.H. Hack
$root_path = '/home/username/www/sub1';
$baseurl = 'http://www.sub1.de/';
 
// require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/b2evocore/_main.php';
require_once $root_path.'/b2evocore/_main.php';

Just made sure the two lines are placed before the include of _main.php.

3. I change this in blogs/conf/_config.php:

// M.H. hack
if (! isset($baseurl))
{
    $baseurl = 'http://www.main.com/b2evolution/blogs';	
}

Now I could start the Blog from www.sub1.de without problems. The only problem was, that the RSS-Feed contained the link to www.main.com instead of www.sub1.de. So I had to change the files in /xmlsrv too:

3. Change in each file:
[code]
$resolve_extra_path = false; // We don't want extra path resolution on this page

// M.H. hack
$root_path = 'c:/cvsfiles/new_rentatut/www/b2evo/blogs';
$baseurl = 'http://www.rent-a-tutor.local/blog2';
require $root_path.'/b2evocore/_blog_main.php' ;

header("Content-type: application/xml");
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?".">";
[code]

That's what I have done so far. I found that the images are not displayed, so I have to copy the /img directory to the subdomain too.

I just wonder if I am on the right path. Maybe it would be appropriate to just get deeper into the config files and changes the references for the image files too?

Maybe somebody out of the core developer team can tell me, if it's worth all the trouble to get deeper into this or if I should just wait for the next release that comes with mulitple domain support?

I already did compare some blog applications and found NucleusCMS had the best solution for muliple-domain installation. They just put an absolute path for the core files, the skins and the media files into the config. So It is possible to put the blogs on different domains on the same server without any problems. I just like b2evolution better, because it has all the features already built in.

So maybe I will find a soulution that I can use b2evo for my blogs.

Regards
Marian