[Solved} multiple instances possible?

[rolfb]

Hi all,

I've got a simple question, and hope there's a simple answer to it.
First my situation:
I've got a domain "www.mydomain.com with hosting-space, php, mysql etc. On that, I've installed cmcms 1.1.1 in a folder ../webroot/cms/
(so it's available at www.mydomain.com/cms )
Furthermore, i've got a domain for my wife "www.wifesdomain.com" without own hosting, but redirecting to _my_ hosting: ../webroot/wife

Now the question: is it possible to set up CMSMS in such a way that I only have one installation, but 2 seperate websites, with their own layout, menu's, contents etc. In other words: on my own domain, I don't want to see my wifes cms, and vice versa.

Hope I described the situation clearly, otherwise please ask !

rolfb

[calguy1000]

CMS Doesn't support multiple domains on one install.  There's only one home page, one category list, one list of news articles, one search index, etc, etc.

Now, that aside.

You may be able to:
  a) configure pretty urls
  b) Create a seperate template for your wifes domain
  c) Create a new section header at the root level
  d) Create all of your wives pages as subpages as the new section header, using your wifes templates
  e) Put all of your wives news articles in their own category(ies)

Search is global across all pages and all news articles though, so you wouldn't be able to use search on the entire site.  There also be other addons that won't work nicely with this setup (though I haven't found many yet, most of them support categorization).

This would give the 'illusion' of multiple sites running on one install....

[rolfb]

wow, what a swift reply.
I was afraid for this answer, but was just checking.
Thanks a lot, I'll study on expanding the hosting

[Dr.CSS]

You could put hers in a subfolder and point the domain to that and if you only have one database you can use diff. prefix for each and use one DB...

I have numerous subfolder installs in my root, multiintech.com/ debra, cmsms1.1, cmsms1, cmsms2, etc. so if hers is pointing at yours just make it point/go one folder down...

[rolfb]

Do I understand it correctly that you installed cmsms multiple times in different folders, sharing the same database with different prefixes?
I presume that's possible, but has the drawback that is consumes a lot of diskspace for double or triple the same files...

[Dr.CSS]

Considering the whole CMSMS 1.1.1 is 8.85 mb. it's not much space, you usually get 20 mb. with your ISP for online presence, not that they give you a DB and my largest only takes up 4 mb. of DB out of 100 you could fit a few in most hosting plans, actually I have them all in separate DBs' I get 25 DB 100mb. each from my host...

So what is your solution? you marked it as solved...

[rolfb]

I 'll do 2 things (because I simplified my question: there's a wifesdomain.com and a wifes_second_domain.com):
I'll get my wife her own hostingspace (she owns a company, so that's taxes-wise OK ) an don that, I'll install twice with a shared database (with different prefixes).

Now learn how css works...