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Hi Everyone,
I still have some questions relating to EE’s commercial functionality.

I believe I read somewhere here in the forums that it was possible to run multiple forums on a single website, is this true?

To clarify I would like to seperate a website into multiple forums.

So that my site has forums dedicated to each make and model of a vehicle:

http://www.example.com/mazda
http://www.example.com/toyota
http://www.example.com/nissan etc…

I originally thought that the only way to do this would be to use the multisite manager extension.

Which brings me to another question. Does the multisite manager have a restriction of 3 websites before requiring an additional license? I was also under the impression that if you bought EE the Forum Module and the Multisite Manager I could set up as many websites as I wanted and that I only required additional licenses if I was to build a new website for a client or other 3rd party other than myself?

Finally with the multisite manager I understand it shares the same user tables. From a database perspective does this mean that all websites must share the same database with different prefixes?

Say
site1_
site2_
site3_ etc..

Or can you have say a central user database and have seperate databases that cater to the content on each website? My only concern is in terms of database backup and management. As large databases tend to be a pain to manage with phpmyadmin and at this stage I wouldn’t be using EngineHosting for my websites - although I think the idea is excellent I’ve already invested in hosting elsewhere at this stage.

Finally in relation to the gallery module. I have been told here: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/76805/

That its not possible to have a “multi user blog” like set up with the EE license. However all I really want to do is provide my website users with a way to adding images to their name. Is it in violation or is it possible to use the FlickR API so that users can add photos through FlickR and when someone views a user profile they can see images assoicated with that user?

Thanks,
Gavin.

Hi Gavin,

I believe I read somewhere here in the forums that it was possible to run multiple forums on a single website, is this true?

To clarify I would like to seperate a website into multiple forums.

So that my site has forums dedicated to each make and model of a vehicle:

http://www.example.com/mazda
http://www.example.com/toyota
http://www.example.com/nissan etc…

I originally thought that the only way to do this would be to use the multisite manager extension.

You can do this with the Discussion Forums Boards and Aliases feature. You do not need the Multiple Site Manager to do this.

Which brings me to another question. Does the multisite manager have a restriction of 3 websites before requiring an additional license? I was also under the impression that if you bought EE the Forum Module and the Multisite Manager I could set up as many websites as I wanted and that I only required additional licenses if I was to build a new website for a client or other 3rd party other than myself?

Buying EE + MSM gives you the ability to run 3 Sites out of the box. You can purchase Additional Sites to add more Sites to your installation as needed. Note that the MSM does not change the EE license. This means that for a new client/3rd party a separate installation/license is needed. In other words, the MSM is not designed or intended as a hosting service of sorts for separate clients.

Finally with the multisite manager I understand it shares the same user tables. From a database perspective does this mean that all websites must share the same database with different prefixes?

Say
site1_
site2_
site3_ etc..

Or can you have say a central user database and have seperate databases that cater to the content on each website? My only concern is in terms of database backup and management. As large databases tend to be a pain to manage with phpmyadmin and at this stage I wouldn’t be using EngineHosting for my websites - although I think the idea is excellent I’ve already invested in hosting elsewhere at this stage.

The MSM runs all the Sites from a single database. Its not currently possible to have a single installation run from multiple databases.

Finally in relation to the gallery module. I have been told here: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/76805/

That its not possible to have a “multi user blog” like set up with the EE license. However all I really want to do is provide my website users with a way to adding images to their name. Is it in violation or is it possible to use the FlickR API so that users can add photos through FlickR and when someone views a user profile they can see images assoicated with that user?

In terms of the license, this is just fine. In terms of functionality it would require a custom EE add-on to leverage Flickr. Sounds like a good project though.

For Flickr, you might search for eeFlickr to help with that end of things. =)

Thanks for the replies. Very helpful.