Subdomains and Joomla

[oci]

I'm new to SiteGround and have a question or two. My immediate question concerns how to use Joomla in concert with subdomains. When I was talking to SiteGround sales earlier this week, they said it would be possible to have multiple subdomains each controlling their own web content using the Joomla CMS. So I created three subdomains using cPanel, but I'm not sure what to do next. I noticed that each subdomain has an empty cgi-bin directory. Do I need to copy Joomla files to the subdomains or what? I wanted each of the subdomains to use the same Joomla template so the look and feel would be the same. I noticed a similar post (using Mambo) last November by VestaMoon, but it was apparently answered offline. I would really appreciate any suggestions here.

Thanks, John

[Dyjital]

If this helps:

What I did is created a few installations of Joomla, then created the subdomain to direct to that specific folder.

There are a lot of ways to do it, just keeping in mind that your installs should be in different folders(which I dont know what I just said that).

With your different installs, you can just keep them on the same template by choosing that through the backend of your site. Change all three/four/five in under a minute.

[oci]

I heard back from the SiteGround team and the solution is fairly simple. You basically have to install Joomla in each subdomain. If you use the Fantastico installer (on cPanel) it goes very quickly and even creates the subdirectories for you (so don't create the subdomains a head of time - or you get an error). All the installs (about 10MB each) worked great. So now I have all these little Joomla subsites that I can let different people manage the content on.

Thank you, SiteGround Tech Support!!

Hope this helps.

John