Multisite Talkyard
One Talkyard server can host many Talkyard sites: different forums and blogs, with different owners and admins.
If you’ve installed Talkyard as usual, for a single site,
then, you can enable Multisite Talkyard.
Let’s say your main Talkyard site is at: main-talkyard.example.com. Then,
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Add DNS record(s) for the new sites you’ll create. Could be a wildcard A or CNAME record:
main-talkyard.example.com 3600 IN A 11.22.33.44
*.multi-ty.example.com 3600 IN A main-talkyard.example.com.In /opt/talkyard/conf/play-framework.conf,
scroll down to the Advanced section; add these settings:
talkyard.createSiteHostname="main-talkyard.example.com"
talkyard.baseDomain="multi-ty.example.com"where main-talkyard.example.com is the address to your already working Talkyard site,
the firt site you installed.
Now, you can go to: https://main-talkyard.example.com/-/create-site, or
https://main-talkyard.example.com/-/create-site/blog-comments,
and create a new Talkyard site.
Its address will be: https://something.multi-ty.example.com.
HTTPS should work automatically — Talkyard and LetsEncrypt generates certs for you. Only the very first time someone (you) accesses a new site, there’ll be a connection-not-secure error, and you’ll need to wait 10 – 20 seconds and reload the page.
Once you’ve created an additional Talkyard site,
you can, if you want to, change its address to something else,
by going here: https://something.multi-ty.example.com/-/admin/settings/site
and clicking Change address.