Helping out a local non-profit set up their website which happens to run on joomla. The site is currently set up as follows: live site url is: yyy.somedomain.org however, now they want to split out from being a subdomain of somedomain.com and just be something like yyy-atl.org.
At this time we would like to keep yyy.somedomain.org live as well as have yyy-atl.org point to the same place yyy.somedomain.org does. (yyy is kept there since that pattern will remain the same between the two sites).
Initially I went in and changed the ip address for yyy-atl.org to point to the same ip address as yyy.somedomain.org. Bad part is that started causing a 403 forbidden response.
I've been trying to look around for adding sites to a Joomla configuration, is it all just under the configuration.php file? Or is there something else that can be accessed to set up the live site so that I can have yyy.somedomain.org and yyy-atl.org pull up the same site?
ok, set
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
original site runs fine, new site getting 403 forbidden. argh. and not finding a .htaccess file to edit.
as a side, if you have joomla sites on the same ip address running on a joomla install but different directories, how does it know which to load?
ie: yyy.somedomain.org zzz.somedomain.org xxx.somedomain.org yyy-atl.org
when i ftp into the site i see directories for: yyy.somedomain.org zzz.somedomain.org xxx.somedomain.org
and when i go to the actual addresses in a web browser the content gets pulled up according to what is in those directories. so i figured i'd create d yyy-atl.org directory and be done with it. nope, get 403. so how is it joomla install knows which directory to point each address to?
I don't know anything about joomla but I'm guessing its something in your webserver settings. if you are using Apache look in the httpd.config (Apache/config) at the tag. I think you can set up virtual host and redirects there to host multiple domains/subdomains on the same ip.
But I'm no apache expert either and this could be total misdirection.
You joomla htaccess file is in the root, but you have to manually rename it from htaccess.txt to .htaccess via your FTP program.
What I've done in the past with sites with multiple domains is to setup joomla to the main domain, and have simple redirects the other domains - that's a webserver issue, not a joomla issue/
Thanks for the feedback. Awaiting from go-daddy support to see if they need to assist. It's a fun waiting game - go-daddy support wants last 6 digits on card used, was only given last 4 digits so they (non-profit) need to track down the card and give me that information.