Topic: phpBB2 and Virtual Domains

[Mike Scheuing]

Hi!

I followed Dan Brown's excellent instructions on how to install phpBB2 on my SME 5.6 installation and it works fine. The quetions is, how do I configure it so that each virtual domain has its own, unique bulletin board? I am currently running 4 virtual domains and they all have needs for their own distinct board.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
Mike

Dan's How-To: http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/phpbb2-howto.html

[Dean Thomas]

Just create a different database for each phpBB installation. For instance;

domain1.com uses domain1 database and password
domain2.com uses domain2 database and password

simple really. I run several domains all with phpBB.

Hope I made sense

[Dan Brown]

Yep, you can create separate databases for each domain.  I'd also create separate database users for each one.  Something like this:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE domain1;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON domain1.* TO phpbb1@localhost IDENTIFIED BY
'phpbbpassword1';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.16 sec)

mysql> CREATE DATABASE domain2;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON domain2.* TO phpbb2@localhost IDENTIFIED BY
'phpbbpassword2';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.16 sec)

...etc.

You'd also need to install each copy of phpbb into its own /opt/ directory, and modify the httpd.conf templates accordingly.  At least, that'd be my guess--I haven't tried it yet, as I haven't needed to.

[Paul]

Dan,

I am going to install 2 forums, one in the primary domain and the second in a virtual domain.  I understand that I need 2 installs in 2 different /opt directories such as:

/opt/phpBB2_primary_domain
/opt/phpBB2_virtual_domain

I am unclear on how to modify the httpd.conf custom template to tell it that primarydomain.com/phpBB2 uses /opt/phpBB2_primary_domain and to redirect virtualdomain.com/phpBB2 to use /opt/phpBB2_virtual_domain.

Does my 93phpBB file needs another Alias line or do I need to create 94phpBB for the virtual domain?  Or are the virtual domains configured elsewhere?

What should that Alias line read? (in other words how do I re-direct a virtual domain directory)? Or do I just not understand this and I have it all wrong?

P.S. Is there a spacific reason why phpBB2 is installed into the /opt directory and not in the /html or perhaps even in a virtual domain's ibay /html directory?

Thanks,

Paul