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Hopefully this is an easy fix. I just installed MSM (Version: 2.0 Build: 20101215) on a EE v2.1.3 build 20101220 site.

When I create a new site and go to Admin -> General Config and change the ‘URL to the root directory of your site’ to:

<a href="http://newsite.example.com">http://newsite.example.com</a>

and then save it, it returns to the original site url (I’m developing on a subdomain):

<a href="http://default.example.com">http://default.example.com</a>

I presume this is because the config.php file is overwriting it with this:

$config['site_url'] = "http://default.example.com/";

Which is what is should be, but it seem like it’s overriding the MSM.
config.php is set to 666.

I’ve configured the index.php files, but it seems like they don’t matter yet because the config.php is controlling the url.

I feel like I’m in a catch 22 here. Any ideas?

Hi, Kelly.

On my MSM installs, my config.php doesn’t have a

$config['site_url']

setting.

But the index.php file for each additional site does.

Can you make sure you have that setting set in the index.php file in your secondary site?

You might also want to place two // before the setting in your config.php file to see if that is the issue.

Does that help?

Hi Sue, thanks for the reply. It sounds reasonable when you say it like that 😊 That fixed that. I had beefed up my config.php and it was giving me errors when I deleted that site_url in the config, but I modified some other config parameters in there and it worked. I am able to modify the site_url in the cp.

So in my index.php of my new subdomain, I modified the $system_path to be the full server path to the system folder. And I get:

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

Do you think this is due to open_basedir restrictions? I turned them off (I thought), but maybe I didn’t quite do it correctly. Or is there something else it could be? Is there another setting I am missing?

I have these set in the subdomain index.php:

$assign_to_config['site_name'] = 'site2';
$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://site2.example.com';

I modified the $system_path to be the full server path to the system folder.

This should be a relative path from the current directory (in which the index.php file resides) to your site’s system directory. See the docs for details.

Yes I should have mentioned I tried setting it to a relative link as well.

Is your system folder above the web root? Are you sure your system path is correct? I usually create a whereami.php file to get the right value. See: Where Am I?

My system folder is in the site root. The system path is correct, it’s our DV so I know it pretty well.

So what error are you getting exactly, where? The other site is working fine? Are you using mod_rewrite in any way?