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Hi,

Bit of an unusual request from a client here. I have an existing website built in EE on a single domain which has been online for the past two years and with great effect.

However, the client is now introducing a sub branded product with an independent domain name and require a kind of mirrored site in terms of template but to pull in different copy and images.

Rather than duplicate the whole site and recreate from scratch, I was wondering if their was an alternative method in EE that would allow for this different content to be displayed dependent on the domain entered and whether or not I would need to set the domain up any differently?

it is called MSM :D
I just am not sure whether terms of use allow you to have such 2 sites, if I am not mistaken, licence terms allow you to have 3 sites max with similar thematics on same hosting account for same client.

If you use MSM, when you create new site, you can literally copy one site with entries and templates to another and then just in templates of site2 you can set to display entries that are from site1 ... i use it currently and it works fine ...

I agree, this sounds like a perfect job for the MSM.

If for some reason you don’t want to or can’t afford the MSM.  If you direct the domain to a different folder in you site you can use a second index.php and path.php file and set the weblog and other variables that change in the the path.php file.  Then you can share templates but pass those templates and the tags within different values dependent on the domain being viewed.

I’ve done this a lot of times and it works great out of the box.

Jamie

Thanks for this guys. Is there any online guides to the MSM anywhere that could assist me in anyway?

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/cp/sites/index.html