Setting up Blog and Forum on seperate domains on single CS instance - troubleshooting

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chris.lawrence Posted: Thu, Mar 29 2007 12:24 PM

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Hi there and help!

I have just installed Community Server 2.1.

 
I am having trouble trying to achieve a blog and forum on seperate domains using a single instance of CS.

This is where I have got to so far......I have used a plugin from Timothy Humphrey.

1) TimothyHumphrey.CommunityServer.dll into the bin folder

2) Added the <add name="SubdomainModule" type="TimothyHumphrey.CommunityServer.SubdomainModule, TimothyHumphrey.CommunityServer" /> to the web.config file.

3) Added the

<subdomains>
    <subdomain domain="forum.hsms.co.uk" path="$forums" />
    <subdomain domain="blog.hsms.co.uk" path="$weblogs/blog" />
</subdomains>

to the siteUrls.config file.

4) Modified communityserver.config as follows:

                <!--<add
                    name = "SiteUrlsDataProvider"
                    type = "CommunityServer.Components.SiteUrlsData, CommunityServer.Components"
                    path = "SiteUrls.config"
                />-->
               
                <add
                    name = "SiteUrlsDataProvider"
                    type = "TimothyHumphrey.CommunityServer.SiteUrlsData, TimothyHumphrey.CommunityServer"
                    path = "SiteUrls.config"
                />
 

Now when I go to blog.hsms.co.uk I get the blog, and forum.hsms.co.uk I get the forum. Good.

When I am at the Forum and I click the link to the Blog, it attempts to navigate to http://forum.hsms.co.uk/Blogs where as I want to navigate http://blog.hsms.co.uk. How can this be achieved?

Also, how is it possible to hide the link to Forums in the blog.hsms.co.uk domain?

I think there are several ways that subdomains can be setup with Community Server but absolutely none of them are adequately documented, contributors to this thread should aim to resolve this once and for all and provide other CS users with definitive, simple steps to achieving a blog and forum on seperate domain.

 Thanks in advance for any contributions