Looking for the easiest way to set up several forums, all on different domains.
So that I can quickly setup several forums without having to go through ALL those check boxes....only go back to each one and do site/domain specific things.
Which files do I need to save from 1 forum and copy to all the others
in order to have a "basic" operating configuration for all the forums?
The server configurations (url, paths, database username and password) are saved in Settings.php.
Any other setting is in the {prefix}_settings table in the database.
Then, there are a few site-specific settings in {prefix}_themes.
To do multiple installs on similar configs what I'd do is:
do an install,
export the database in sql format
keep a copy of the files
Then, any time I have to reinstall:
open the export with a notepad and search and replace both the paths and the the urls (usually up to the forum directory),
import the copied&replaced file in the new site,
fix the settings in Settings.php
* upload the files
Done.
No, as I wrote Settings.php contains all the server config: path, url, database server, name, username and password.
These are the one that make the forum work, anything else can be changed later on from the admin panel.
Did you change the database name in Settings.php?
I guess you are using two different databases.