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Hi,

I’ve installed the MSM and am confused by how you manage your domains, using this add-on.

If I have 2 sites, SiteA.com and SiteB.net for instance, does the standard way of setting up $system_path take this into account?  In other words, will “$system_path = “www.SiteB.net”; work for this setup?

Do both of the site urls, SiteA.com and SiteB.net, have to exist on the same physical website or can they be set to urls on different websites i.e. the way a vps is set up?

It seems that when looking at the expression engine demo site for the MSM, the “Control Panel Demo” and the “Second CP Demo Site” both show the same url structures inside their system preferences > general configuration settings but looking at the urls for pmachine, codeigniter and expressionengine websites, they appear to have independent configuration settings.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

W.

ok

I have seen in the forums that all sites have to be in the same place but I still can’t get my head wrapped around how to deal with multiple domains, using this system.

When I try to assign a different url for SiteB.net, under system preferences > general configuration, I lose all formatting inside my cp.

I must be doing something wrong.

Anyone?

W.

I’m not sure how you have it set up- a subfolder for your second domain with a copy of index.php and path.php- correct?  Now- to make the FRONTEND of that site use the proper urls, the config there will need to have the siteB path used in the general config ‘URL to the root directory of your site’ setting.  But that won’t affect where you access the backend.  If you want to access the control panel for the b site using a url like myBsite.com/admin.php- you’d want to use masking access to the CP and put a copy of the admin file over in the ‘b’ subfolder.  (Which I haven’t done, as I don’t mind have a ‘central’ cp under the main domain and just having the frontend bits work of off the different domains.  But if you want the backend cp to be accessed via different urls, that’s how I’d approach it.  Make sense?)

Hi Robin,

I am having problems with seeing this for some reason, any way.

So far, I have it set up like this:

SiteA.com is at httpdocs/SiteA.  I duplicated SiteA.com into SiteB.

SiteB also resides in a folder called httpdocs/SiteB with a copy of index.php and path.php inside.  I have the system path set up as $system_path = “/SiteA’s_EESystemFolder/”; inside path.php.

Is this right so far?

W.

Yep- right so far, assuming your system path is correct.  But I’m not sure if we’re talking about a backend issue or a frontend issue right now.  Er- can you link to a working frontend for either/both folders?  In other words- if you just had an html file in site a and an html file in site b- what links would currently show that html file?

Hi,

[www.mysite.com/index.php] is the url to the main ee site (site a). 

The url to an html file to what is supposed to be site b is: [www.mysite.com/siteb_folder/index.html].

I hope this helps.

W.

Robin,

Ah, getting something different now.  Not exactly sure what but different.

I will post again after some tests.

W.

Right.

Thanks for that bit of info…

so the link to SiteB seems to finally be set properly inside > general configuration and the link is now making the right connection.  That much is great!!!

However, I am still not sure of how to get SiteB to be accessible from the url; http://www.siteb.com.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

W.

Hi,

I am still searching for a front end solution.

Although I am now able to access the correct templates in SiteB using this url: http://mysite.com aka (SiteA)/siteb_folder/index.php/site/index/, I still don’t understand how to set the path to SiteB to be http://siteb.com/index.php.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

W.

Hi,

I am still looking for information on how to assign multiple domain names to a MSM installation.  I’m stuck.

Has anyone done this?

Thanks.

W.

wemm, you make a modification to the other site’s path.php file.

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";

You’d set the values for $site_url and possibly $site_index.

Does that help?

Sue,

That looks interesting, I will give that a try and post back.

Thanks much.

W.

Hi,

So I guess you’re suggesting that I would have the SiteB.net domain name that I’ve just registered, assigned to one of the extra sites using $site_url = “www.SiteB.net”; 

If this is the case, how do I get my registrar to know where to point my newly registered domain, so that it works out of site_b’s folder? 

This is where I’m confused.

W.

Greetings, wemm—

I admit that I do not know the intricacies involved in how a domain gets to where, however your host should know this.  For instance, when I set up a new domain with EngineHosting, lets call it example.com, I emailed EngineHosting support something like this:

Hi!

Can you please set up a second domain for me, under my main account (lisajill.net), called example.com.  It is already registered so please let me know the correct nameservers to point it to, thanks!

About an hour later I had my site:

public_html -> all my main site files
example -> empty and ready for example.com.  I stuck license.txt in there to test propogation and example.com/license.txt worked!  From there it was just a matter of following the MSM instructions.

However, the domain pointing/initial setup does need to be done by you and your host.