Having over 100 communities under one global one on a single site install just got a lot easier thanks to this. Would love to find a clever way of having a login pass between the sub sites and the main one, but that is a small price.

I just bought this package because I thought it would be a clever solution. I thought it would be easy to use and comforting for the user.
Well, it definitely is easy to use, but the amount of work it does stunned me - in a bad kind of way.
I thought to myself: It will take me one hour to fix this myself, but then I only do it half-hearted. Well, I would have done everything this addon does.
As soon as I get out of the edit Mode, I "jump" back to the root page. It does nothing to exclude subpages of excluded pages (so that the sub-pages are not shown on the root page) out of the nav.
I really don't get it what the service of this package is, at all.

So, to all fellas who bought it, a few hints to make it behave it more like I feel it should:

- Modify the .htaccess:
# -- concrete5 urls start --
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*secondhosthere.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*secondhostfolderhere.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/secondhostfolderhere/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# -- concrete5 urls end --

If you want a different favicon for each theme, use this in the header element of the theme:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="foo.png" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="foo.png" type="image/x-icon" />

And dont include an Favicon in the dashboard.

To avoid "jumping" from domain to domain, you can add this to your config/site.php:

if(preg_match("/maindomain/", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) > 0)
{
define('BASE_URL', 'http://maindomain.com');
}
else if(preg_match("/seconddomain/", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) > 0)
{
define('BASE_URL', 'http://seconddomain.com/');
}

You could refine this all very easily, also for general purpose, and that is why I am seriously disappointed by this 125$ addon. It took me about one hour to do this basic stuff, and I don't see any reason why this is not included in the addon..

I have a site on c5host.com and it has 5 sub-sites that may grow to more than 20. Rather than deal with 20 installations I save a ton of time and energy with just one installation and run the Domain Mapper. $125 seemed like a lot when I bought it but it's paid for itself many times over.

Steve

Our organization manages a bunch of small pages for clients (non-profit, public works stuff) and this makes my life a heck of a lot easier since employees don't need a new account for each site we create and now every site is managed within one C5 install. Super time saver, super helpful for my purposes.

Down sides include
- above stated sub-directory path (but really not a big deal, just something to be aware of)
- load time/rendering weirdness; sometimes loading your add-on page theme doesn't go very smoothly: flash of blank background, elements loaded in weird order, etc.

it's a nice addon... very helpfull...

but you really should add the feature that the add-on works without full paths

links like mySecondSite.com/secondSite/about for example are not really nice.

mySecondSite.com/about would be better.

I expected MORE for that price.

how well does the domain mapper work with TLS/SSL? seamless?

thanks! :)

thought i'd better ask before i buy.

Does the job well, and it is a much more affordable way to get your site setup this way than paying us for half a day of tinkering....

...plus we'll DO the tinkering if need be as part of support!