The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.As I need to set up pretty soon a set of totally independent forums,
I was thinking to adopt the approach described in http://drupal.org/node/147828 .
This setup would be "in addition" to the current Domain Access configuration.
- settings_domain_conf.inc would be included only in the "main" settings.php
- alfa.example.com and beta.example.com would be used for AD (only Page/Story content type enabled)
- alfaforum.example.com and betaforum.example.com would have their own setting.php (only Forum content type enabled)
I have two questions:
1) is the described approach compatible in principle with the way DA works?
2) when Domain Prefix will be available, will it be feasible to merge the existing forum tables under Domain Prefix?
thank you
Comments
Comment #1
agentrickardBy 'totally independent' do you mean that nodes and users will not be shared across forums?
Comment #2
skizzo commentedWhat I mean is that the entire user population should be able to access N forums, but the forums should be built on independent taxonomy dictionaries. Here is my problem: if I set a single "container root" with N forums (i.e. a single taxonomy dictionary) then a user can visit a specific forum, but when he/she tries to post... the entire dictionary (many unrelated forums) will show up in the dropdown forum selector. So I wanted to try the approach that you suggested (use prefixes: N forum = N prefixes = N taxonomies) but I am uncertain to whether this would conflict with Domain Access, which I would like to have for many other reasons. I hope this clarifies my question. Thx.
Comment #3
agentrickardIt does, but I don't have time for a proper follow-up right now.
Comment #4
agentrickardSee http://drupal.org/node/190940 -- I think Domain Prefix will solve this issue.
However, I'm not sure if copying the 'forum' table is sufficient. You might have to copy all of the taxonomy tables as well.
Comment #5
agentrickard