Installing EE is easy and done.

My question is for the multisite system folder access

we have EE installed on domainA

/home/domainA/public_html/EE (/system)

and a second domain to use EE

/home/domainB/public_html/ (and copied index.php and path.php to here)

Now I understand that the path for domain B need to point to domainA’s system folder but what is the best way to do this? symbolic link or absolute URI?

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums, db5.

Now I understand that the path for domain B need to point to domainA’s system folder but what is the best way to do this? symbolic link or absolute URI?

It depends on how you have things set up.

Are domainA and domainB on the same server? Who is your webhost?

I use MediaTemple GS for some of my domains. In that case, I’ve done something like this:

1234 is the number of my MediaTemple GS account, and domaina.com is the first domain.

So how are you set up?

I tried that and get the “system path not found” message. That is the file structure (/home/domainA/public_html/EE/system) I believe the webserver will not allow access below the public_html dir. I tried placing a sym link in the domainB /public_html that linked to the /home/domainA/public_html/EE/system,  which worked but I am looking for the best/correct way as we will be implementing numerous site with EE.

we are hosted on a dedicated server (we have total access) with totalchoice hosting

Thanks

Found a solution,

on our server the account is jail to dir’s specified in the httpd.conf

php_admin_value open_basedir “/home/domainB:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp”

you need to add the absolute path to the system dir to each account you want to access the system folder on the EE installed account.

php_admin_value open_basedir “/home/domainB:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp:/home/domainA/public_html/EE/system/”

Hm- wouldn’t have thought of that one- I usually go the multi-hosted route via cpanel, which handles it for me.  But this is a nice ‘heads up’ for the more server inclined.  Thanks for sharing the solution.