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hi there,

I’ve set up my first EE multiple site installation which works fine in respect of the front-end websites. However, I have an issue with the “View Site” link in the top-right drop down in the EE admin system.

At present I’m able to administrate the CMS via domain1.com/cms/ and domain2.com/cms/

By default EE allows me to manage both sites via both URLs. The View site link, however, always goes back to the default website. I think this may also cause issues with links which EE prepends the site_url to.

From what I can see the issue is caused by:

* We are setting certain config settings via the config.php depending on the server hostname. This includes $config[‘site_url’]
This is done to allow us to have a local, staging and live environment without having to make amendments to the database.

* Because of the above when managing Site 2 via the Site 1 CMS admin URL the View site link is incorrect. Therefore, is it possible to lock the editing of Site 2 to only via the Site 2 URL?

* Or is it possible for us to know what site is being edited in the config.php file so we can set the correct site_url?

Any ideas appreciated.

best wishes,
Simon

Hi Simon,

Thanks for posting to the Forums!

A master config and MSM can play nice together, you just have to get the bits in the right order 😉

As a rule, don’t set any site specific values in config.php. Take this example:

//CONFIG//
$config['cp_url'] = "http://engine.dev/admin.php";
$config['doc_url'] = "http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/";
$config['is_system_on'] = "y";
$config['allow_extensions'] = "y";
$config['site_label'] = "Test 23";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$config['multiple_sites_enabled'] = "y";

index.php and admin.php site 1
NO CHANGES

index.php and admin.php site 2
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://msm.dev/admin.php';
$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://msm.dev';

--- admin ---
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://msm.dev/admin.php';

With that, and say the Focus Lab Master Config, you would use the $base_url variable for site 2:

index.php and admin.php site 2
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = $base_url.'/admin.php';
$assign_to_config['site_url'] = '$base_url;

--- admin ---
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = $base_url.'/admin.php';

That still lets the hostname trick work, keeps everything version controlled and should work out the kinks in your URLs

Cheers,