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See, I thought there were two system directories. When I first installed EE, there was some confusion until I could get the site working. And I was never able to sort out what was on-line and what was redundant. I think that this update has made that no longer a viable work-around. Thank you all for your patience and persistence in helping me work through this.

MT is a legacy from a former blog.

My main EE installation should be where ever you think it should be.

The main blog/website is Girlyshoes. Girlyshoes has sub directories for Photo Shoes and Tante Leah’s Handmades. Photo Shoes and Tante Leah are both galleries and templates.

The second site is Mild Burning Symptoms (or MBS) that is a commerce site, using the Simple Commerce Module (and yes, I paid for the commercial license).

The third site is unrelated to the first two, and was so newly added as to be merely a name, with no templates/pages/CSS, and that is Annekes

Is that enough information? The Pointy Haired Boss is gone, and I’m alone in the office, so can stay here and reply instantly.

Alright.  I’m going to go back in and have a look around so please make no changes.  We’re going to try to help you through this but when all is said and done, you may need to work with a Pro Net member to get things straightened out.

That said, give me some time and let’s see what we can do. =)

Alright, it doesn’t look like the Aneke set was setup in the file-system, so I’ll leave that to you.  Girlyshoes and mildburningsymptoms are running correctly.

Please have a look around and let us know where we stand now. =)

By the way - the reason your system directory didn’t work was that you had uploaded the root index.php and path.php there.  The system directory has its own index.php (reflected in the download structure) and no path.php.

Everything seems to look and work fine on the live site. Well, except for the default to “I’m still off line”...

But I can’t log in to the control panel. It just resets the page.

Thank you again for being soooooo very patient with me.  I’m a self-taught coder and once very few years that catches up with me in an explosion of fail.

Are you logging in through an admin.php file or through the main URL?  If it ends with admin.php let me know and I’ll have a look at that as well.

Main url, but not hidden… it’s the host address/main directory/system/core/index.php

Would you prefer a cut and paste to the actual place I’m trying to describe?

Yes, give me the exact URL - I’ll edit it out after.

edited out

Is there a reason you’re using the IP rather than the URL?  Try using the domain name instead. =) If that doesn’t work, let me know again the exact URL you’re trying at.

Uh, I don’t know?

And yes, using the domain name worked like a charm.

I feel so stupid. See, THIS, exactly is why I should have gotten that EE scholarship in January.

The log in works, and everything switches like it should from site to site, template group to template group. The Tags module is still missing. But I should be able to sort that out myself. Do I need to do any sort of clean up in there? I haven’t gone back to the FTP site since you told me to stop making changes. =)

So, allow me to explain why the IP doesn’t work.  It’s because you’re using cookies and sessions, and that cookie is set as your domain.  Using IPs tends to be problematic in general, and they’re a lot harder to remember as well - at least a string of numbers is harder for me to remember.

Alright, now - is everything working? =)

Aha you responded more while I was typing.  The Tag Module shouldn’t be missing.  I see it in the Modules list but with no tags.

You can FTP in again.  I would strongly recommend - when you’ve recovered - getting this site working in a development area and doing some serious clean-up.  Get rid of all legacy items that you don’t need and get it down to the minimum for the working site.  It’ll make maintenance and troubleshooting much easier for you.  A fair bit of work in the short-term will mean a lot less work in the long-term.

I would not do that live.  And I’d also recommend getting a working backup now while you know it’s all working.  And make that a regularly scheduled habit, hehe.

Aha you responded more while I was typing.  The Tag Module shouldn’t be missing.  I see it in the Modules list but with no tags.

You can FTP in again.  I would strongly recommend - when you’ve recovered - getting this site working in a development area and doing some serious clean-up.  Get rid of all legacy items that you don’t need and get it down to the minimum for the working site.

And therein lies the rub. What is redundant? How do I know?

That’s why I recommended the dev box.  I’d review the installation instructions for both EE and the MSM so you know what files you need to keep.  It generally comes down to:

* Images in use on your site
* The entire system directory
* index.php and path.php
* Any external scripts/CSS you are using on the site

I’d slowly remove items from the development box (into another directory) and test the site at each move, to make sure it still functions.  Eventually you should be able to trim it down appropriately.

This neither easy nor fast but the pay-off is worth the time investment.

The other option is to hire someone from the Job Board or Pro Network to help you streamline everything.