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I’m looking for some info on how I should setup my folders for my websites when using MSM. I’m new to EE all together and would appreciate any input the community can give me. We are currently using EE 2.1.3 with MSM. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

Mike

Are you running MSM to drive separate domains, subdomains, or the same site in folders?

Hi Boyink,

Thanks for the quick reply. I’m trying to setup multiple separate domains.

Thank you,

Mike

I usually just create a subfolder off the root for each MSM site, and have the domain mapped directly to that folder.

Do I need to do anything from EE’s end to tell it where this site is? Is it as simple as going into each site and changing the Admin > Global Preference information?

Mike

The MSM Docs have a pretty good step by step process for creating a new site and the server work required.

Boyink,

Thanks for the info. I will try it and let you know how it goes.

Thank you,

Mike

Boyink,

So I tried the doc and I’m having some issues. I’m trying to do the following. I have 3 domains as an example:

abc.com
def.com
ghi.com

I want to setup each of the domains in it’s own folder. Right now I setup a new folder in the root called:

abc.com

I’ve configured the settings and preferences for abc.com in the cpanel to point to the right directory etc. Currently I have my JS, CSS, and Images for abc.com in folders that are located in the root as well. Everything is working great. But I want to move the JS, CSS, and Images folders in the abc.com folder so that it’s more organized for each website just like how we do for standard website. Is there a way to do this in the cpanel or is this something I have to do with mod_rewrite to achieve this?

Thanks for your help.

Mike

All I’ve ever done is:

- Create the abc.com/images (for example) folder
- Create a File Upload Destination (if applicable)
- Modify all paths used in templates & code in the new/additional MSM site to look at the new folder

It’s pretty straightforward.  Is there a specific step/situation that’s tripping you up?

glenndavisgroup,

One step that may be resulting in your issue is defining the site_url in the index.php file that resides in the folder in question. You will want to uncomment out the following lines and fill them in with the right information

//  $assign_to_config[‘site_name’] = ‘’;
//  $assign_to_config[‘cp_url’] = ‘’;
//  $assign_to_config[‘site_url’] = ‘’;

From there when you use {site_url} to point to a css file it will point to that particular site URL. So {site_url}css/main.css will point to abc.com/css/main.css.

Hi Guys,

Thank you both for your reply. The problem I’m having is this. When I setup the site and folder for abc.com in the root and put the css, js, images etc. in that folder. Non of my references for image, css, and js etc. are working when viewing the website. So for example the following is not working:

http://abc.com/css/style.css

I get a 404 file not found. The only way it works is if I call it like this:

http://www.abc.com/abc.com/css/style.css

I tried setting the global var $assign_to_config[...] values but I’m getting this error:

Site Error: Unable to Load Site Preferences; No Preferences Found

The only way I got it to work was to setup a condition and rule in the .htaccess file for the following:

RewriteCond $1 \.(css|js|swf|gif|jpe?g|png|ico)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /abc.com/$1 [L]

Not sure which way is the right way.

Thank you,

Mike

Should the domain be mapped one folder deeper?

Here is the structure:

/abc.com
- /css
- /js
- /images
- /abc
  |—/site.group
  |——index.html
  |——aboutus.html
  |—/includes.group
  |——top_header
- index.php

I kept this structure since after the install I started working on the site then realized I was doing it wrong and moved the /abc folder from the system > templates > abc folder. Maybe this is my problem. Should I move “site.group” and “includes.group” to the root of /abc.com?

Mike

Well - it’s a bit fuzzy since I’m not sure what the site/includes folders are for.  With EE you shouldn’t need content-specific folders on the server like that since EE will pick up the request and look to it’s own templates library.  Even if you save templates as files they typically go into their own folder that doesn’t show in the URL.

Just for reference, I use MSM on http://boyink.com and http://boyinks4adventure.com.

Here is the folder structure:

Boyink.com:
index.php
path.php

/js
/css
/system
/images
/themes
/rv_adventure (boyinks4adventure.com)
  index.php
  path.php
  /css
  /images
  /js

My EE templates live in the database so they are not stored at the file level.