Multiple Site Manager Disaster

#1 / Feb 19, 2009 6:03pm

zencode
7 posts

- I have installed multiple site manager.
- I have created a second website. (I did not copy any content or templates from the first website.)
- I have copied the index.php and path.php to the second website directory.
- I have updated the path to system folder in path.php

Everything works fine ... except my “site two” shows the content and templates from “site one” (Of course without any media files that are directly referenced by URLs). To put it simply, there is NO “site two”, it’s just a copy of “site one”. Any settings I make to “site two” (taking it offline, creating templates, setting URL in General Configuration) take no effect at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
#2 / Feb 19, 2009 6:04pm

Lisa Wess
20502 posts

Hi, zencode - welcome to the forums!

When you created Site 2, what did you choose for the drop-downs for the weblogs, templates, etc?
#3 / Feb 19, 2009 6:07pm

zencode
7 posts

I have left everything as “Do Nothing”
#4 / Feb 19, 2009 6:22pm

Lisa Wess
20502 posts

Is the incorrect data being show in Site 2 on the front-end or back-end? And can you paste the path.php files for both Sites, please?
#5 / Feb 19, 2009 6:42pm

zencode
7 posts

The data in the back-end is correct. I can switch between the websites in the control panel, create separate template groups, manage weblogs for each site ...

Website one (the one that has EE installation) is also correct on the front end.

The problem is only on the front end of website two. Website two shows the same content as website one. Any tempaltes I create for website two are ignored. When I take website two offline - that is also ignored, I still get the content of website one

path.php for both sites are correct, for site one it is pointing to /system/ and for site two it’s ../../site_one/public_html/system/
- if the path was wrong it would not work at all.

I have gone through all the obvious causes of this, and double checked everything, I am afraid the problem is somewhere else.

I suspect that there is some sort of a bug that causes expressionengine not be recognise it’s being accessed from a second website - thus is always sending the content of the first site.
#6 / Feb 19, 2009 6:50pm

Lisa Wess
20502 posts

Can you please paste the path.php for site 2, as requested earlier?

Thank you!

#7 / Feb 19, 2009 7:01pm

zencode

7 posts

// ------------------------------------------------------
// DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE A REASON TO

// ------------------------------------------------------
// Path to the directory containing your backend files

$system_path = "../../zencode.eu/public_html/system/";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

#8 / Feb 19, 2009 7:05pm
Lisa Wess
20502 posts
You’re missing the site_name variable, explained in the domain setup section of the MSM docs.

You need to add:
```
$site_name = 'Site_Short_Name';
```
to your path.php. =)
#9 / Feb 19, 2009 7:08pm

zencode
7 posts

OK I am TOTALY STUPID tonight !!!
I forgot to add the site short name to the path.php
... sorry, time to go to bed 😊
#10 / Feb 19, 2009 7:11pm

Lisa Wess
20502 posts

No worries, zencode - but that’s why I wanted to see path.php 😉 It’s all working now then?

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