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I’m a bit confused about having multiple sites using the same installation.
So, I have this:
site1.com
site2.com

expression engine is installed and working on site1.com. I put the path.php file on site2.com. Now, when I have to set $system_path = “/system/” - it is saying I must use a relative path. How am I to use a relative path for a separate domain? The two domains are on the same server, but how can you browse to another domain? It just doesn’t seem correct to me.

Thank you for your patience with me as I tackle the EE learning curve!

It will depend on your setup. If you have separate domains on the same server, one common setup is to map every domain to a separate sub-directory. Are you using the MSM here, or are you trying to use multiple domains with the same single EE install?

It will depend on your setup. If you have separate domains on the same server, one common setup is to map every domain to a separate sub-directory. Are you using the MSM here, or are you trying to use multiple domains with the same single EE install?

We are set up on a VPS server (Media Temple) and wanted to set up completely different domain/ host. But during the MSM installation we ran into a relative path issue across domains during the path.php set-up. Our PLESK does not allow relative paths at that point.

So now the site2.com is inside the root directory with site1.com install. We need both sites to work independently of each other to the viewer. Meaning the URLS need to be only its domain. right now the following happens:

site1.com/site2_directoryname

We need this to happen:

site2.com/index.php

At this point this seems more of an issue with DNS: You must make sure that the second site resolves to the sub directory within the first site. Put a secondary index.html in there, and make sure you can access this via your secondary domain. Once that that works proceed with the MSM installation instructions.