Is it possible to have multiple instances of Discourse but that users can log in to all of them with the same ID info? Let’s say that I have a forum for multiple cities, city1.domain.com, city2.domain.com, city3.domain.com but that users only have to register once. Thanks for the help in advance :slight_smile:

Yes, you can do it as @vinothkannans described. It’s not required that you use multisite setup to do it, but it would likely make sense. I started just such a configuration for a client recently.

In addition to the above answers to your question, you might also want to think twice before setting up separate discourse instances for different cities. See this topic for more on this: [imagem] Setting up Multiple Instances of Discourse as Subdomains Support Hi everyone, I have a few questions and was wondering if you could help me clearing some doubts. I have discourse set up under a main domain and not under a subdomain. I have recently changed my mind and instead of having my forum categories in one place, I would like to have them set up as subdomains, my questions are: can I set up multiple instances of discourse under one domain? As in, Category of computer, nature, life and science. Can I set up four subdomains and one discourse instance i…

This person is seen to want to convert each category of the same forum into subdomains. What I mean is to have separate discourse for each place! However, I am going to assume this also require lots of server resources!

[imagem] Y2K: I am going to assume this also require lots of server resources! Nope, a multisite setup requires practically the same resources as a single site with the same aggregate traffic profile.

Wow thanks for that info @mpalmer . I was a worried about this, but I guess it mostly depends on the traffic and not the installation itself. That’s good to know. This is more of a technical question; My plan is to have different sub instances, but they will all contain the same topics. Except for the main one, that will be used basically as the landing page, resgistration, informational purposes, and links directory to all the other discourses. Is it possible to create the primary discourse for the forums and then replicate it so that one doesn’t have to re enter the categories names and descriptions over and over? I appreciate you all taking the time to help me out!

[imagem] Y2K: Except for the main one, that will be used basically as the landing page, resgistration, informational purposes, and links directory to all the other discourses. Discourse is not a CMS. Don’t try and use it as one, it will not end well.

Thank you again for taking the time. No actually trying to use it as a CMS. Here is the plan so that you have an idea. Domain Name: army.community I have been in the military for about seven years now. Military members move a lot, about every three years you get transferred to a different duty station. My idea is to have a community forum where soldiers and family members can share ideas, information, and inquiries about X army post. As well as a simple chat between people that have the same interest in common already, the army. Until now the best, and most common way of doing this is by creating a Facebook page, which usually is set up by an army wife. The main problem with this approach is that since military members get moved so often, once they leave, the administrator loses interest in that particular post, and the page ends up dying. Not to mention the risk of getting your whole community wiped out by Facebook itself. I want to have something like fortriley.army.Community, fortirwin.army.Community, fortdrum.army.Community etc. which will be for this purpose. The forums will be mostly community driven. NOT a blog or such. Just fair sharing of information. Do you think this is the best approach for my idea?

[imagem] Y2K: Do you think this is the best approach for my idea? Nope. Nothing in your plan would be better served by having separate subdomains. Your plan also doesn’t cover why you’d want the same topics in all of them, nor why you would want to put all the other non-discussion stuff into Discourse.

Sure. The reason for this is that every military installation has its community. For example; the information about the Commissary at Fort Irwin may and most likely will not apply to the information at Fort Riley. These military installations are often massive, and each community has its problems and inquiries. When people are about to move to a different duty station, they usually start researching about that next duty station. Believe it or not, even tho they are all military posts (base), this is not a one fit all kind of thing. Stuff like housing, services, education, etc. Will most likely be different from post to post. Also, many service members choose to live in off-post housing. Therefore information about near bay areas are also important.

Can I log into multiple instances of discourse simultaneously?

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) 16 Julho , 2017 08:20 2

It is possible using multisite. For user registration process use SSO provider feature in domain.com and SSO client feature in cities city1.domain.com, city2.domain.com.

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