Is there any way to use the JMS Multi Sites component with different domain names, but without configuring the document root path at the web server virtual hosting?

YES when you parked domain in your hosting environment, you share the same document root for multiple domains.

Remember that JMS comes just after apache (or IIS) and therefore the domain must be first recognized by apache (or IIS) before it reaches the joomla website (php code).

So if you don't want to configure your apache with different document root, you can simply create alias for multiple domain (cPanel parked domain or equivalent for other admin tool).

Hi,

I'm ready to buy your new version 1.3. and install it on Joomla 2.5.

However, I have concern about configuring my sites so that Search Indexing does correctly for each individual site.

I guess, from reading your exhaustive examples, the 'proper' way is to use Symbolic Link.
Since my Hosting Provider doesn't provide Symbolic Link (for security reasons), is then the only option to use Parked Domains?
Regards,
Emmanouel

Yes you can use parked domain to share the same joomla application (php code).
In this case, you will have a limitation concerning the /images directory and /templates directory that will be the same for all the websites.

Each website can have their own DB or at least a different table prefix.
So that they will have their own content and therefore the search engine will see those websites as independent (except for the files and folder - ie. images, ... present on the disk).

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.
Since all the sites will share the same images and templates directories does this leads us to conclusion that for the case that the sites belong to individual owners, we cannot let the owners of the sites to administer their sites?

I would also like to know for the following:

* If a user asks for a Parked Domain, in the user browser's address box, will appear the domain that he asked for or it will change to the domain that has the Parked Domain?

Regards,
Emmanouel

JMS does not update the cPanel, Plesk or other administration tool to declare the "parked domain" into apache or other HTTP Server (IIS, ...)

So when you define a new slave site in JMS with a domain, you must ensure that it is also defined in the apache, ...

In the slave site, joomla provide a possibility to modify the "image folder" in the image manager (j2.5) or in Global configuration (j1.5) but most of the extension does not read this configuration parameter and have the "/images" directory hardcoded.

The consequence is that the images directory for all the website.

The same thing is true for the "/templates" directory.

This is the reason why the "Symbolic Link" allows solving such limitations.