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Trying to make a forum on subdomain site in MSM.
I do as it is written here - http://expressionengine.com/wiki/How_can_I_run_the_Discussion_Forums_from_a_subdomain_such_as_forums.example.com/
On the main site I think it would work, but there I do not need.
I need the forums to other sites connected via MSM, ie for each site I make my section of the forum.

What I have:
In the settings section states:

Forum URL: forum.site.ru
Keyword to go to the forum: forum

The directory Forum 2 files index.php and .htaccess.

.htaccess:

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} forums.kasimov62.ru
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/forums/$1

index.php:

$system_path = '../ee_system';
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'site2';
//$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://forum.site2.ru'

Ie in the settings of the site parameter $assign_to_config [‘site_name’] = ‘site2’; included, or site will not work.
If this option is enabled on the forum at http://forum.site2.ru displays the site itself, not the forum.
If you turn off the option says “error connecting to the database.”

What can you think of?

Hi 4ksner,

I’m sorry you are having trouble getting the forums up and running on a sub-domain.

You shouldn’t need to setup one of your MSM sites in order to facilitate this. The process outlined in the Wiki, while not an officially supported method, is all you need to do.

Based on some of the info in your post, I tried to visit your forums. Are you sure you have set up the subdomain with your host? I couldn’t get the URL to resolve properly:

forums.kasimov62.ru

Are you also using .htaccess to remove index.php? That would probably require a change to the forum redirect rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} forums.kasimov62.ru
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forums/$1

Cheers,

Now forum only works at - http://forum.kasimov62.ru/index.php/forum

And here is the site work and is not a forum - http://forum.kasimov62.ru/

Hey 4ksner,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

Did you make that sub domain change with your hosting provider? That’s not going to work until the server is configured. Can you tell me a little bit about what you did to make this work?

Cheers,

I have a dedicated server.
The path of my forum: /www/forum.kasimov62.ru
The path of my site: /www/kasimov62.ru

What settings may affect the operation?

Hey there 4ksner,

Gotcha, but wondering if you have made this change on the server? Is Apache setup for subdomains?

Thank you,

Do you need this?

<VirtualHost 176.9.4.14:8080>
 ServerName forum.kasimov62.ru
 DocumentRoot MY_PATH/www/forum.kasimov62.ru
 AssignUserID USER USER 
 CustomLog /var/www/httpd-logs/forum.kasimov62.ru.access.log combined
 ErrorLog /var/www/httpd-logs/forum.kasimov62.ru.error.log
 ServerAlias <a href="http://www.forum.kasimov62.ru">http://www.forum.kasimov62.ru</a>
 ServerAdmin .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
 php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/USER/data:."
 php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)"
 php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir "/var/www/USER/data/mod-tmp"
 php_admin_value session.save_path "/var/www/USER/data/mod-tmp"
 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5 .phtml
 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</VirtualHost>