Multi-Boonex with only one database

Hello,

Do you think that it is possible to create several boonex sites with the same database ?

As :

http: // us.example.com

http: // it.example.com

http: // uk.example.com ... etc...

Do you think that there is a contribution ?

I looked without finding

Thanks per advance

I was actually thinking about this the other day.  To use one database for multiple sites, the installation would need to allow you to add a table prefix for each site.  Some platforms allow this and some don't.  The reason to allow this would be if a person had a host that limited the number of databases one could create.

i tried this a long time ago - it kind of works , but there are some elements that look at things in the database for location and may not work properly.

The short answer is that Dolphin is not designed to allow one database to hold multiple Dolphin sites.  If your hosting only allows one database, find another host.

https://www.boonex.com/n/introducing-dolphin-connect-oauth2-sso-for-your

I read the OP as one database, with several Dolphin installation installed to that single database; not several Dolphin sites with a single log-on.

 Yes, I know what he said, but multiple Dolphin sites with the exact same content and membership would be pointless.  It might even piss people off in certain cases. If I joined a site focused on gardening, and discovered that I also became a member of a site about gay midget nazi nudists, I might not like it too much. I don't see an up side. A unified login however, is useful. 

A unified login is useful indeed, but the initial question remains unanswered..  For instance I want to have 3 sites with 3 different domains  exp:  world.com - peace.com - unite.com  all of which use ONE database. And not to complicate things further, these sites should be hosted on the same server.. I think this is doable, but I haven't seen it done..

I am guessing that you might want multiple domains for each site?

I have tried this and while a lot of things did work, some things did not

 I'm curious.. what do you believe the usefulness of this would be?

It would allow unscrupulous people to flood the net with hundreds, if not thousands of dating sites with identical pre-filled profiles. I already know of a few sites that share the same database, they just have different modules and also present the profiles differently.

As Dolphin doesn't ask for a database prefix which is rare, it would be very difficult, if not impossible to run two different sites from the same database.

No, in reality, all the social networks work like that. It allows to have a centralized .COM and then, the members UK sees only the members UK, US members US etc...

It's the base for any international development.

If Boonex thought of it, it would be good

Thanks

Sharing same database and sharing same user accounts is different. If you have 2 install of dolphin running on same database then its essential the same. If you want custom domain for each "language/country", in that case there is a way by parking all the domains to the same dolphin install and customising the code a bit.

According to you, it's possible to share  2 or more dophins on the same database ?

Yea why not but both will have to be exactly the same install but than i don't see the point. Its like copy the files and put it under another domain. Both will use the same database at the same time, in rare cases a database table lock can occur but it shouldn't be a big issue assuming its a small site which it is, cuz it has same site on 2 different domains :/

Thank you. I'm going to make tests on 3 Dolphins simultaneously.

I would tell you if it worked.

i tried this a while back - but for a different reason - wanted a main site and a test site - but instead of having two databases - just used one . It will not work 100% - as I have said twice already

Speaking of usefulness, one thing that would be extremely helpful for me is MAINTENANCE - maintain one database, one user community and not to mention one upgrade.. 

and that is where you will run into issues. it will not be just one upgrade - files have to be uploaded to each site for the upgrade.

I tried and it worked but not flawlessly.

Because some files are stored on the folder of that domain, which will not be transferred to another site/domain.

Only stuff that are stored in the database are shared within the sites/domains.

As Professor has said, the upgrades will be done individually for each folder/site/domain. But in this case, you can just do one, and copy/paste to another folder. still, you have to reconfig the paths to point all sites to 1 database.

I talked about this awhile back

https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Site-Cloning-Is-this-going-to-mess-up-the-dbase-.htm

https://www.boonex.com/m/Cross_Database_Profile_Synchronization

this allows to have multiple sites with same users on each site, looks like it doesnt cover other content.

Not updated to current release, also there are other limitations

not sure if this is down the right line for what you are thinking?