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[forest mars]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Andrew Markushin <scullion at web.de> wrote:


> There we go -- *how* did you do that? Was your problem similar to mine?
> What was the trick? (Of course I understand there must be some trick,
> but my brain just refuses to produce a reasonable guess, that's why I
> asked that very first question.)
>
> NB: I don't want to hack the Joomla's core, despite the fact that this
> would be a dirty but quick solution. I'm still looking for a "legal"
> way. :-)



Not *really* a hack at all, certainly not a core hack. Trying to recall
exactly what I had to do, because I thought the Joomla installer allows you
to drop all existing tables, but I remember there were places where it
complained about something already existing. What I ended up doing was some
behind the scenes manual deletion, then running the installer on the next
domain but using the same settings. A quick check of the config files and
all the sites, each with their own config files, were running off a single
database. After that it was just a matter of templating the sites (you would
never imagine they were in any way related the templates were so different)
and of course  creating separate block I mean module definitions for each
domain.

I'd welcome the opportunity to do another install like that again, seemed
like I was having to just push what Joomla is set up to do just enough that
I had to do some work-a-rounds, but not enough I had to violate the core.

cheers,

Forest Mars

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In practice, they're completely different."
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