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Overtime
11-21-2009, 01:02 AM
Helping some friends setup a forum for their car club, and we successfully set the MySQL Database up, and got the VBulletin forum up and running (running out of the /forums/ folder)

We are also going to setup the main page to run off of Joomla, and my question is

do we have to create a second database for the Joomla to run off of? or can it run off of the first database that we setup?

I've never had a website where I had both Joomla and VB forums running at the same time, so slightly new territory for me.

Rick
11-21-2009, 09:45 AM
I am pretty sure you will want seperate databases.

I just looked at the database structure that my vbulletin has and it has several generic table names, such as users, thread, post, etc.

It is very possible that if you tried to install joomla tables into the same database that there would be conflicts with same table names.

Overtime
11-21-2009, 11:31 AM
thanks Rick!!!