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Hello everyone,

My client currently is running three websites off of one hosting account, and I wondered if it's possible to have one install of CMSMS managing all three:

firstdomain.com
seconddomain.com
thirddomain.com

localhost/public_html (root, first site)
localhost/public_html/secondsite
localhost/public_html/thirdsite

I currently have the first domain name, running off the root folder, with a CMSMS install. Now they are wanting the second site, also on a CMS and didn't know if I should re-install all the CMS files in localhost/public_html/secondsite and create a second database, or if I can use the already-existing CMS files in the root folder but connect it to the second domain name and a second database?

Came across a few other posts on this topic, but several dealt with a separate topic (parked domains all pointing to same root folder), and the one similar to mine was an older one: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopic.php?t=1265

There's a possibility that the third website might also be converted over to CMS, so this question would become even more relevant then.

Thanks for any help!
Rob

Maybe it would be possible to create symlinks to all files except the config.php file? I don't think it would be wise though... It sounds a lot like asking for trouble to me...

CMSMS does not support multi-site in the core in any way shape or form.

The suggested solution is to install the second, third, and subsequent sites into subdirectories, and manage them separately.

There is a 'multi-site' module, untested though. I still wouldn't do it this way. If I really wanted to manage multiple CMSMS sites I would create software to manage creating, deleting, and synchronizing data on multiple different CMSMS installs from a master.

mcdavid and calguy1000,

thank you both for your replies and advice. unless there's an official tested-and-well-used multiple-site solution similar to what i'm asking for, then i think i'll stick to the tried-n-true managing the sites independently.

it's too bad, but i do realize it would probably require lots of complexity to create that kind of solution.

again, thank you both for your input!

robert