We have recently developed a way to control access to other sites from one site running AEC (Account Expiration Control) and the sub-sites using vHTaccess plug-ins.  Now the logic flow here is fairly straight forward but there are a few things you need to know about the major components of such an integration:

• There will be one Joomla site which will sell the subscriptions and access to the other sites.
• This is where AEC is installed
• The other Joomla sites that you are selling  access to can be separate URLs or even sub-domains.
• These are the sites that will be using the vHTAccess plug-ins

The logic flow here is as follows:

The Main Site

AEC is installed and used to collect all the pertinent Membership information such as user name, password, and email address.

AEC uses its Micro Integrator htaccess, to create the htaccess and htpassword files needed for vHTAccess to authenticate against.

The Server must have curl installed.

You can sell memberships to another sites,  more than one site, or even multiple sites.

Community Builder or Jomsocial can be installed on this site..

The Other Sites

Can be on the same server or a different server.

Server must have curl installed.

vHTaccess is used as the authentication method and user creation method

Only the Username and Password is passed to the site, all other registration information is not recorded, but is available through the main subscription site.

All links to registration, user name or password reset are redirected tot he Main Subscription site.

Jomsocial can not be installed on these sites

The access level is simple and a must: They are either registered and have access to the membership content or they are not and do not have access.

1 access level only (Registered)

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