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Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 05 Nov 2010 01:55 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

If each subdomain Tiki uses the same database, the content will be identical in each site. Is this what you want?

Or are you simply trying to share user login among different sites (like here at the tiki.org sites)

HTH,

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Posted by Jeffrey Lewis Hales 05 Nov 2010 12:02 GMT-0000 posts: 15

Yes, identical content among the subdoains is exactly what I want (with one hopefully simple-ish caveat). I am sorry to have made two requests in the same post, though.

The same info would be available in all the sites, though the subdomains would utilize their own menus, home pages, features, modules, permissions, etc through the use of perspectives. For example, forums.domain.com would start at the front of the forums and none of the other subdomains, with the possible exception of admin.domain.com, would have the forum feature enabled except to possibly show recent relevant posts on their own pages through the use of modules. I hope that makes sense. I know it's only an æsthetical decision to divide the site up in this way.

About sharing login info among the sites, that is being accomplished quite handily already by sharing the single database. What I would like to do is get the sessions to span across the subdomains so that a user doesn't have to login anew to each subdomain. I notice that this has not been done here at the tiki.org sites, as I can log into the documentation and still have to relog in the forums.

After many hours of research, I fear these are not things that have been implemented in tiki. While I have nearly figured out the cross-subdomain sessions, I believe some serious hacking will be necessary to make tiki give each subdomain it's own perspective within a single database. Am I missing something?