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Subscribe [5]#16 / Feb 16, 2009 8:22pm
Ya Got me…. If that ain’t it I don’t know what it is… or where to find it. I will go look on the net and see if I can find a explaination so I know where to look. I am on a Verio windows server. I have been screwing with this stuff ffor 20 + years… and this has me stumped. I can manage to do this:
http://www.what-is-excellent.com/
and yet can’t find my server path. I feel like a twit!
Thanks
#17 / Feb 16, 2009 8:34pm
Take a peek at the KB Entry that Lisa Linked to above. 😊
-greg
#18 / Feb 16, 2009 8:41pm
yes… I read that… No help. I wrote Verio. For $300+ bucks/mo they oought to at least tell me.
Don’t go away. I am sure like a bad penny, I will return. I have not had a drink for a month… but I am going to look for a bottle….. sometimes when you get a bit fuzzy this stuff makes more sense.
You need better documentation on this. REALLY! Make it simple for morons like me.
#19 / Feb 16, 2009 8:45pm
Sorry, but what exactly is not clear to you in the KB Entry?
#20 / Feb 16, 2009 9:00pm
What is unclear…?
Well I opened Dreamweaver… made a php page… placed this:
<?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); ?>in it, Saved it as test.php. Uploaded it to the website… opened it with my browser… and read
"<?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); ?>"As far as I can tell that is what it told me to do. Therefore it seems a bit unclear… because I am not getting the expected result. 😊
#21 / Feb 16, 2009 9:09pm
okay,
Can you please give us a link to the file you made?
-greg
#22 / Feb 16, 2009 9:13pm
#23 / Feb 16, 2009 9:17pm
okay, you said you’re using dreamweaver, right?
In making that test script, you should not make it in “design view,” since Dreamweaver adds a bunch of other code in the background. eg:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); ?>
</body>
</html>is what we see when we “view source” of the link you gave us.
It needs to be made in “Code View” The only thing that should be in the file is:
<?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); ?>-greg
#24 / Feb 16, 2009 9:27pm
What it returns is:
D:\Webs\bla5300009\Scripts
I told dreamweaver to make a php page not an html page. Why all the headers? EEEEK! I should have made it in notepad.
Anyway.. Progress.. Now what?
#25 / Feb 16, 2009 11:34pm
O.K. I plugged that ( actually one from the correct website) in…. zilch,,, zip.. nada. Why don’t you people just automate this? Look at the time and money spent trying to figure this out. Is there any reason this has to be this involved? How about a form…. that say’s “Set another one up here”... fill in the blanks. You need one big picture and one easy to understand instruction page…. this has bben “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”.
Stay tuned.
Thanks
😊
#26 / Feb 17, 2009 12:26am
okay.
So it’s returning: D:\Webs\bla5300009\Scripts
you put that file in a folder called Scripts, so your server path is: D:\Webs\bla5300009\
So you need:
D:\Webs\bla5300009\<your system folder name here>\
Make sense?
-greg
#27 / Feb 24, 2009 2:03pm
O.K. Still no work….. I have given it all a rest for a week….. I am re-reading your on-line instructions.
Yours says,“Copy an existing Site’s path.php and index.php (the ones from your main directory, not from the system directory) files into the directory from which you wish to access your new Site.”.
I have been assuming is means copy them to a directory in the new site in the new and different DOMAIN…. It never actualy says that.
????
#28 / Feb 24, 2009 4:02pm
Can you tell us a bit more about your URL structure? To repeat: if you want to use the MSM, all sites must be on the same server.
#29 / Feb 24, 2009 5:22pm
Well I lease a managed server from Verio…. I created the domains. So assume they are on the same one.
You didn’t answer my question above. If the original site is on domain A… you do mean to copy the index and path files to a directory on the new domain B ... Right?
Thanks
Frank
#30 / Feb 24, 2009 5:29pm
I am sorry, “domain” does not really mean anything in that context. A domain is usually mapped to a directory on a server, and it is these directories we are talking about. The MSM doesn’t care whether you access a new site as http://example.com/site2, or http://example.net—you’d have a directory “site2” on your server, and it is here that you need to copy the files.