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I’m struggling getting MSM to work correctly. I am now starting with a clean install. Can someone verify if the General Configuration settings are system wide or site specific? Specifically the URL settings such as:

URL to the root directory of your site
URL to your Control Panel index page
URL to your “themes” folder

If I change the control panel url, it appears to change the config.php file, so I assuming that setting is system wide, but I sure could use some clarification.

Thanks.

The following are the only system wide preference by default:

License Number
URL to your Control Panel
Enable Multiple Site Manager
Weblog Designation Word
URL to Documentation Directory
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Debug Preference
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Enable Extensions

Those are the ones that had to be system wide for one reason or another.

There will only be one control panel url- there’s only one ‘system’ folder.  So that’s system wide (root directory and url to cp)- now, you can mask access and put a copy of admin.php in each site and use that for a site specific cp- but that’s a bit different than the single ‘system’ folder.  As to themes- if it’s in your config.php file?  You can pull that one out.  That’s a site setting, not a system setting- you can specify it on a per site basis if you like- as long as you remove it from your config.php (because the config.php will override the settings in the db fields). 

Make more sense?

Yes that all makes sense, thanks. But I’m still having the same problem I had before I did a clean install.

If I login to the system as SuperAdmin I can view the first offline site, but not the second. I get the system offline message. If I try to login directly to the second site via the admin.php file it does not login.

I have set the cookies for both domains, and set the cp login to cookies only.

If I set the second site to sessions only, I’m able to login via the admin.php but still get the system offline message.

Try Sessions and Cookies (or just Cookies) for the CP *and* use the admin.php file because if the CP is on a different domain than the second site, then the browser will not allow the cookie to be set.  If you cannot login still, then it seems likely that the cookie domain is still incorrect for the second site.

Same result. I can login to the first site, switch between sites, but when I try to render template of the second offline site I get the system offline message even though I’m superadmin.

On the second site, I’m just not able to login.

OK, then send me a PM with login information for the CP, please, and the location of the second site’s admin.php file.

PM sent.