Trying to have Multidomain and Multiforum with my current forum

[Game.ruler]

Hi Support Team,
I am using SMF 2.0.2.
I have 1 main forum :

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http://example.net/

I have 2 new domains :

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http://example.me/

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http://example.org/

1 ) Multidomain forum :
I want to use .me domain as only alternate domain using all the files and DB of main (.net) domain.
For this purpose i have just copied all the files of main domain (.net) and pasted in .me's directory.
And changed value of only a few variable in settings.php :

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$mbname = 'Example.me'; .
$boardurl = 'http://example.me'; # URL to your forum's folder. (without the trailing /!)
$cookiename = 'SMFCookie956'; # Set this value to same as main domain's.

Also i set the path of sources, themes, cache to main domain's (.net) path.

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$boarddir = '/home/example.net'; # The absolute path to the forum's folder. (not just '.'!)
$sourcedir = '/home/example.net/Sources'; # Path to the Sources directory.
$cachedir = '/home/example.net/cache'; # Path to the cache directory.

Everything is working fine by this, but i am not sure if it is the right way to do it.


2 ) Multiple Forum :
I want to use .org for different purposes.
This forum will share a few tables of main (.net) domain , like members, themes etc.

I have read lots of topics related to multiforum , but i don't know which one to follow.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=349954.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=171340.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=456860.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=171340.0

And what will the best practices to achieve this. Please help me.
Thank you.

[Kindred]

doing things like that is certain to cause issues.

If you absolutely insista on doing that, I suggest using Feline's subforums/subdomains mod

[margarett]

And you should also update your forum as you are some security fixes behind