Is it possible to use same forum but with two domain names?

[indiachatforum.net]

hello friends

i have this forum http://www.indiachatforum.net and i recently registered another domain name http://www.discorner.com

my question might sounds weird but is it possible to use the same database with same content and posts and members but with 2 different domain names?

I have godaddy hosting and i have some idea about using the redirect option but that is not what i am trying to do

right now http://www.discorner.com redirects to http://www.indiachatforum.net and all threads also redirect

for example

http://www.discorner.com/Thread-whatsapp-jokes redirects to http://www.indiachatforum.net/Thread-whatsapp-jokes
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but what i am trying to achieve is

Is it possible to make sure http://www.discorner.com has it's own logo and own url but the whenever a user opens a thread in either http://www.discorner.com or http://www.indiachatforum.net it gets updated in both?

I am sorry if it's confusing

please let me know and i will eloborate

thanks for your time

 

[CM30]

It's possible, although whether it's a good idea is another question.

For a different logo, you'd use some sort of referrer code and then change the logo based on the domain.

 

[indiachatforum.net]

It's possible, although whether it's a good idea is another question.

For a different logo, you'd use some sort of referrer code and then change the logo based on the domain.

Thank you for the response. I am a novice and don't have much knowledge about how to do it using the referrer code

I am using MyBB for my forum

Could you please let me know how to do it or point me to any online resource

thank you

 

[drucrazy]

You can alway's frame it, but I wouldn't know how you would keep the logo, name, etc unless you coded something telling it which URL they came and what to show to that user coming from that particular URL.

 

[milksheikh]

I believe there is a way to do it, I remember doing it for one of my forums in the past, I have forgotten how though sadly.

 

[Ashley z]

You can definitely do it, but I would not recommend it to anyone. Google is much more serious these days about dinging website owners who have duplicate content on the internet. Using two different domains for the same forum will result in every single post/thread being available on the net twice. Google and other search engines will notice this and may choose to remove your links/content from their search results.

If you still want to go ahead and do it, you may need to find a Mod or Plugin that allows your forum software to share Cookies between domains. Otherwise you might end up with one domain being unable to be logged in to or users being logged out frequently.

Step 1
Download all of your MyBB files from your main domain, including your theme and addons/mods

Step 2
Upload all of those files to another folder which your second domain will use for theme files, etc

Step 3
Make sure your second domain's MyBB installation is set to use the same database as your first website.

Step 4
Go into your second domain's folder which you created in Step 2. Change your 'logo.png' file so that it's the logo you want.

Step 5
Look into a mod or plugin that allows multisite MyBB installations as you will need to use different prefixes for the Cookies if you want users to be able to use either site or stay logged in on your secondary domain (as they'll be viewed as invalid on the second site unless you use a mod or change those prefixes).

That should work. If it does not, let me know.

 

[Stalin]

it would be best to use code in the head to get the domain name then display the change of logo and other things with it. it would also be more efficient.

 

[Thomasss]

I am going to move this to our archive since there hasn't been a reply for a while. Feel free to create a new thread or let a CT member know if you want to reopen this thread. 🙂

Thanks! 😀