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So… I’m having a hard time getting MSM to work. I’ve followed the instructions for a subdomain, copied the “admin.php” and “index.php” files, but the path to the “real” system folder is not working right. I’ve searched the forums and saw that someone reported this working:

$system_path = '/home/123456/domains/example.com/html/system/';

Which *should* work, but it’s still not getting there. In order to get the file upload or template path right in a typical EE installation on Media Temple, I usually have to include the fully qualified server path:

/nfs/c01/h01/mnt/123456/domains/example.com/html/system

I tried that above, and it didn’t work either. Am I missing something? Anybody have experience with this? Thanks in advance.

I’m working through this same issue right now as well. I’m lost in a sea of open tabs, so I can’t find the link to the post where I read that it could be an open_basedir issue.

This is what I’m trying to use now to get permissions set properly:
http://goo.gl/0MZs9

So it turns out this *does* work:

$system_path = '/home/123456/domains/example.com/html/system/';

Not sure what was different, but suddenly it stopped saying that the system path was broken. Together with a proper .htaccess, making the right template group default to the home ‘index’, and editing the site-specific General Configuration root URL and cpanel URL, and that did the trick. Finally working!

Hi Sprocketeer,

I just wated to ask about the quality of the MediaTemple service (it looks like you are on a GridServer). We used to recommend our clients use them, but we started getting very long page loads and performance issues that no amount of caching or settings changes could alleviate on quite a few of their clusters.

Eventually we ported all of our customers over to Dedicated Virtuals which “fixed” the performance issues, but were wondering your experiences thus far (and perhaps giving you a warning).

So it turns out this *does* work:

$system_path = '/home/123456/domains/example.com/html/system/';

Not sure what was different, but suddenly it stopped saying that the system path was broken. Together with a proper .htaccess, making the right template group default to the home ‘index’, and editing the site-specific General Configuration root URL and cpanel URL, and that did the trick. Finally working!

That setup worked for me. It turns out that MediaTemple had somehow set my PHP version back to 4 (first problem), then when I set it back to 5.3.6, I didn’t realize that I had to set a timezone. Once that was set, I was good to go. No open_basedir setting needed to be altered.

@all,

Looks as though you all have this sorted out! Excellent. I want to keep the conversation going for you, so I’m going to move this into the General Discussion forum.

Cheers!

I was just about to attempt this on mt-(gs) and wondered if you considered moving your system directory out of the domain root, and if that would work?

$system_path = '/home/123456/domains/system/';

I might try it tonight either way,

j.,

with a proper .htaccess, making the right template group default to the home ‘index’, and editing the site-specific General Configuration root URL and cpanel URL, and that did the trick. Finally working!

Could you expand on what a proper .htaccess file looks like in this case?
Same for making the right template group default to the home ‘index’?