forum directly in subdomain? (no subdirectory)

[scooter8511]

I currently host my site on aominecraft.com
that is where my main blog is. i want to use a forum, but i want the forums to be on a separate site, used as a subdomain. ergo, i want to go to, say, forums.aominecraft.com and then be at my forum, not with the /forums at the end.
i am currently trying with bbpress and multisite, but i am willing to use any setup that will accomplish this.

does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
thanks for your time and help.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Probably Multisite with subdomains.

Install bbPress the plugin, and ONLY activate it on that site. Then toss in a plugin to auto-add new users from your main site to the subdomain.

[scooter8511]

thanks for the tip, but wouldn’t that then have it so that the actual forum stuff would be at forum.aominecraft.com/forum ?

[Axel13]

No, not if you turn one of your blogs into a forum.
I would not work with WordPress for the forum though, unless it is absolutally necessary to keep all users in one database. Instead I would use phpBB – http://www.phpbb.com/

ex. http://forum.onewhole.eu/index.php – theme used: http://www.phpbb3styles.net/db/style/Attriuum

I’m quite certain it will soon be possible to merge the databases anyway, maybe it’s even possible already.

PhPBB Bridge should take care of PhpBB but I don’t know about 4images.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-single-sign-on/
and more from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=phpbb&sort=

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/whould-it-be-possible-to-merge-services-like-phpbb3-and-4images?replies=3

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

scooter8511 – You can change the slugs.

In fact, there’s an option “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”

In your case, you can turn it off 🙂

While Axel’s partly correct, it’s still totally doable with bbPress, AND you don’t need any extra shenanigans to sync users. Which I don’t even know if PHPbb works with Multisite….