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I want to make the default_site offline and others additional site work normal. I have configured additional site general configuration to offline to NO and the default site offline to YES. But when I accessed the additional site, it displays the message site offline. When I turned back default_site offline to NO, the additional website start working.
Can some one able to guide how to fix this ? Thanks in advance

Are you logged into both sites?

First test:
Opened 3 new blank tabs.
First tab - login as admin for the default site. Set the “is site on” to No.
Second tab - Checked default site - site displayed offline message
Third tab - Checked third site - site displayed offline message

Second Test:
Frist tab: Set the “is site on” of default site to Yes
Second tab : refreshed the page (default site), site was online
thrid tab: refreshed the page (second site), site was online.

Sorry I just realised that the thread is created in the wrong forum. The product I am using is 2.0.2 pb1 20100430 Can you please move it to the 2.0 Public Beta technical support area.

Moved. Are you logged in as a Superadmin? You will always be able to see your sites that way. Be sure to logout and login to the other site as a common user (or anonymous). Are you sharing a login between sites? If so, how, ie what do you have in your config.php?

Hi Ingmar
There seems change in original problem reported. I was making sites online and offline, clearing browser cache etc. Some how, not sure how, I am unable to reproduce exact same issue. but noticed a different issue that I am able to reproduce.
I have only one user in the system (i.e super user). I don’t have any frontend login. So it is just a public access (or anonymous) to the front end.
Openned 2 different browsers
a. Google Chrome (GC): For admin configuration and checking
b. Internet Explorer(IE): for Public acess

GC:
a. tab1:Logged in as super admin through default_site admin page. set Default_site status offline and selected the additional site (SiteB) from the sites menu and set status of it to offline.

b. tab2 - acessed default_site front end - able to see the website
c. tab3 - accessed second site front end - site offline message

Checked in IE: (results as expected)
a. tab1: default_site - site offline message
b. tab2: second site - site offline message

Simply, if the site is offline for the second site, even though you have logged in as super admin, unable to see the front end website.

My question remains, are you sharing logins between sites? Are you using cookies and/or sessions ids? Try to add

{logged_in_group_id}

to your template and you’ll always see at a glance what group you’re currently in.

Hi Ingmar
for the default site {logged_in_group_id} shows 1 (Super Admin Group)
for additional websites it is 3 (Guest group).
at present i have not shared logins between sites (assumed super admin will have access to all sites created) - No cookie or session is also used.

So you are not logged in to the additional sites, and consequently treated as a Guest. Is that experience consistent with your expectations? You should probably use cookie based authentication to make a shared login easier.

Thanks Ingmar
Yes you are right. I should set cookie authentication. Thanks for the help.

handiyman,

Please confirm that this is a viable solution for you and we can close this one out.

Yes you can close the case but still figuring out the ways to setup. Once I set up the name in cookie settings like .primarydomain.com and .secondarydomain.com for the respective domain names in cookie setting area, I am unable to log back into CP. The login page re-appears after entering the login credentials. So was researching those issues in the forum + KB articles etc.

Might this help?

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/TShoot_Problems_With_MSM_Logins/