I have a client who's business has 3 locations. I am currently running one Joomla installation and one site that all visitors see regardless of location.
The client has just added a 4th location. We now want to separate each of the locations into their own website. We want to present different content based on the location. For example, if the user goes to the home page (not sure yet if this will be a static html page yet) and chooses one of the 4 locations, the site they are presented with is specific to that location. With a different slide show, different events, different calendar, blog, menu news etc.,
it looks like MultiSite could handle this task.
However, according to the documentation, when adding a new site, it asks for the URL of the site. So I will have 4 subdomains for each of the 4 locations of the main website. location1.website.com, location2.website.com, etc.
My question is this: The documentation also mentions that each of the sites and subdomains but redirect to the root directory of the Joomla installation. Which in this case would be website.com - but we need to have a page there that will allow visitors to choose from each of the 4 locations’ websites to visit. If all the subdomains are pointing to the root, won’t they all end up at that same page?
Or should I create a static HTML page to choose from the 4 locations, then install Joomla in a directory within the root directory? Any help is greatly appreciated. I am really champing at the bit to make this project work.
Hi jjspelman,
Thank you for your post and welcome to SEBLOD forum.
The multisite functionality is based on the ACL system. When you define a new website then a set of user groups and a set of access levels will be created.
As i understand your explanation, you should install joomla at first, define websites and redirect subdomains to the root of your joomla website.
In this case, you will have :
- location1.website.com
- location2.website.com
- ...
- locationn.website.com
At the end, you can create in joomla an article which correspond to the home page of your website.
Regards,
Mehdi
Hello,
where we can find multisites tutorial?
Thanks.
An overview here: https://www.seblod.com/v2/documentation/seblod-2x/multi-sites.html
Hi,
This link is more recent http://www.seblod.com/resources/manuals/archives/seblod-2-x-setting-up-multi-sites
Regards,
Mehdi
HI,
i encounter the same problem..
I have joomla installed in root latenmaken.net
i have created a subdomain dingen.latenmaken.net and this is redirected to latenmaken.net
I created a site in seblod called Dingen laten Maken. Created two homepages. One normal and one for dingen.latenmaken.net
Gave them the permission of Dingen Laten Maken (tried also with - only guests).
But when i visit dingen.latenmaken.net i get redirrected and see the normal homepage (not the one for Dingen laten maken). I also don't see the menu-item of the subdomain.
So i guess joomla sees me as a normal visitor of latenmaken.net and not dingen.latenmaken.net
So, did i miss some setting, or does the redirect needs to be of a specific kind?
Greetings and thanks,
Joris
Edit: When i redirect the subdomain to the menu-item directly http://latenmaken.net/home-dingen i get a login.
This is also when i use as access Dingen laten Maken -Guests only....
so it seems like i'm not being seen as a visitor to dingen.latenmaken.net or something.
Any ideas?
I have set the redirection back to the normal root domain latenmaken.net
One thing to remember for others that are having troubles and are trying to troubleshoot... when changing redirections... most browsers have the old one in some cache. In chrome you can empty it and it will use the new redirection. Firefox is more difficult to use with this particularly problem...
Does anybody know how it works? How does the joomla installation know i'm coming from a subdomain.domain.com and how does it assign me to the subdomain guest group?
It seems where something goed wrong.
Greetings,
Joris
