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Did you followed the advices of SEO gurus, and now you have a bunch of domain names, like mydomain.com and mydomain.org, mydomain.info and mybestdomain.net, and you want to use all of them to display your sole , well buit joomla site, but dunno how? Here’s the trick you need!

Point all those domain names to your account! Doing that may need a help from your hosting company, or you may be able to do it yourself. Most hosting packages have the “Addon Domains” or “Parked Domains” menu item/applet on your hosting account to do that – find them and use them, or ask help form your hoster and/or from some experts.

Then grab your favourite tool and let’s hack the configuration.php file! Oh, yea, make a backup first, just in case!

If you have Joomla 1.0.* find the following line :

            $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.mydomain.info';

And replace it with this one:

           $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

In case your Joomla is in a subdirectory you have to specify the name of the subdirectory:

           $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/directoryname';

Note to substitute directoryname with the the directory name in which Joomla resides.

That’s it, enjoy the solution.

PS. And what you need to do if you have Joomla 1.5.*? Nothing. That one is clever enough to handle all domains pointed to your account