Over time I have been reading these forums and have read about people wanting to point multiple domains to the CGI server for different things such as forums, blogs, galleries etc. and then having problems with .htaccess and mod-rewrite rules to redirect to the appropriate sub-folders.
I have recently come across Drupal CMS, wich has forums, blog, galleries and more. It allows multiple domains from one codebase and in its basic form does nor require you to be dealing with rewrite rules.
Instead of rewrite rules, within the drupal directory structure you create a folder with the full web address of each of your sites e.g. 'www.domain1.co.uk then copy the unmodifield 'settings.php' file into that folder.
In your web browser you go to your site. Enter your MySQL details and you are away.
Plenty of plug in modules to extend it as well.
