By Success on

Hi Everyone,

I have 2 questions about Drupal with vBulletin. I have been searching everywhere and asking several times on this forum but I find no answer.

I don't need Drupal & vBulletin to share database or logins. I just want to find out how to install vbulletin on a single Drupal and also how to do it on a multi sites drupal setup.

1. On a single site Drupal, if I install Drupal on root and install vBulletin in /forums/, how do I configure Drupal so that /forums/ and all it's urls goes to vbulletin instead of being served by Drupal?

2. Same question, but on a multi sites Drupal configuration.

I am not asking about sharing a single license vbulletin. If I have 3 different vbulletin licenses, where do I install it and how do I configure it with Druapl?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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Comments

nealtz’s picture

nealtz commented

You can do 1. as simpel as it is ;).

Install Drupal to root and vBulletin to /forums/. Thats it! If you don't activate the drupal forum module all links to /forums/ will be served by vBulletin.

Success’s picture

Success commented

Hey, THANKS A LOT! It works.

Anyone know the answer to question 2?

vm’s picture

vm commented

you can't do it with multisites and only one installation of vbulletin, you would need an install of Vb for each multisite. otherwise, Vb would have to have its own multisite ability, which it does not since its licensed based.

Success’s picture

Success commented

Thanks.

Where do I install vb for each of the multisites?

vm’s picture

vm commented

I would venture a guess that it depends on whether or not drupal is install in your root.

if drupal is in the root, for MS i'd move it to a subdirectory, than use some .htaccess rewrite rule to remove the subdirectory name from site address.

this would leave you room to do something like

drupalinstall/
forum1/
forum2/
forum3/

I am not sure how installations inside the drupal root will work out, trial an error on a test installation of drupal would be beneficial. you may want to check VB's license as well, multiple instances of their forum software, requires multiple licenses from my brief look a year ago. Therefore multiple instances of VB may not work regardless on the same domain, or other domains, and you run the risk of losing your license if you aren't careful to follow the rules of the license.

salava’s picture

salava commented

It works, but only with mode_rewrite enabled, e.g. Clean URL. Not with /?q=forum etc. Therefo used only as simple link to vBulletin, where it is necessary to login with vBulletin credentials.