[Plugin: WPSMF] Forum on another server

[thewebdeveloperllc]

Is there any way to edit the plugin so that it will accept a path to a forum installation onto a seperate server?

I want to link 3 wordpress websites into 1 forum, but the forum is located on a different server.

Is there a hack or method to do this?

Thanks
Zach

[SchattenMann]

maybe…

you need to copy your smf files that are beeing included on index.php (SSI.php, Subs-Post.php, etc) into your WP installation. also copy the SMF config file and edit the server to your remote SMF server. then allow remote mysql connections and maybe it will work…

[thewebdeveloperllc]

OK I will try this tomorrow and give you some feedback on my success or failure 🙂

[thewebdeveloperllc]

I had some time now so I went ahead and tried this. All went well, but a couple of things:

1) You need to copy Themes/default too – the whole folder
2) In settings.php – in addition to updating the database info, you need to update the file paths to the sources and board DIR as well – from the REMOTE server, to the LOCAL one:

$boarddir = ”;
$sourcedir = ”;

[SchattenMann]

im not any expert in SMF wo my advise is:

create a SMF folder with all the usual content simple don’t install any BD…

in settings.php add your remote sql server settings.