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It’s worth mentioning you have to do all this for each domain AND subdomain to get it working. That threw me off at first (and the paths were a little different for where the domain is located for subdomains) but in the end worked great! Thanks for this!

One minor addition to this extremely helpful thread…

My path read:
$system_path = “/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/eecp/”;
instead of:
$system_path = “/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/system/”;

I’m not sure if this is because the dev who installed EE named the folder as eecp or because it’s an older version or what… but clearly (for those who this may potentially help) the paths in the path.php files for the respective dependent domains need to reference whatever folder EE is installed in.

FWIW

Thanks for the help all.

One minor addition to this extremely helpful thread…

My path read:
$system_path = “/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/eecp/”;
instead of:
$system_path = “/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/system/”;

I’m not sure if this is because the dev who installed EE named the folder as eecp or because it’s an older version or what…

It’s recommended to change the default ‘system’ directory name to something that is not easy to guess for security reasons. Your developer did the right thing by changing the name. Once changed… its best to not let others know what the new name is.  😉

See the installation instructions step 2 here.

@Hanabi The characters to type to save and exit your file are colon followed by w and q - like this :wq

I’m having issues getting this to work on my domain with the classic method (http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Running_Multiple_Domains_or_Subdomains_or_Subsites/). Getting this error:

The system path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open your path.php file and correct the path.

I have followed the above article and this thread and can’t seem to figure it out. Here are my following settings:

/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/subdomain/httpdocs/path.php:

<?php

// ------------------------------------------------------
// DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE A REASON TO

// ------------------------------------------------------
// Path to the directory containing your backend files

$system_path = "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/system/";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------

$template_group = "repo";
$template = "index";
$site_url = "http://repo.domain.com/";
$site_index = "index.php";
$site_404 = "404/index";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

?>

/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf:

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/">
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value safe_mode off
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/repo/httpdocs/">
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value safe_mode off
</Directory>

Thanks for the help!

The folks at (mt) helped me on this one and got it working. I thought I would post this for future reference. Keep in mind this is for DV 3.5, which probably still applies to 3.0.

Need to configure the vhost.conf file on the subdomain/conf/ too

The cause for the issue was due to a PHP parameter open_basedir which restricts the subdomain to only have access to the httpdocs folder.

I set open_basedir to none within a file called vhost.conf located in

/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/subdomain/conf/

and then ran

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng—reconfigure-vhost—vhost-name=subdomain.domain.com

For more information regarding open_basedir visit

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/514/

This worked great for me too but now I have an issue.

I created a second site with MSM on Mediatemple’s DV 3.0 with a unique IP. The index, or home page, is working fine and I can view it at the IP address. I am using the IP for testing and do not have the domain pointed there yet. When I try to view a sub-template I am getting 404 errors. I found this article that describes my problem but the solution does not work. My main site that has my installation of MSM is working fine - all the templates/sub-folders on that site work too.

I can create a new sub-folder with a static html file on my new site and I can view it in the browser (00.00.000.000/something) even though I have EE installed. It’s as if my request is not going through the index.php file like it should.

Am I missing something?
Anybody else have this issue? Thanks.

This worked great for me too but now I have an issue.

I created a second site with MSM on Mediatemple’s DV 3.0 with a unique IP. The index, or home page, is working fine and I can view it at the IP address. I am using the IP for testing and do not have the domain pointed there yet. When I try to view a sub-template I am getting 404 errors. I found this article that describes my problem but the solution does not work. My main site that has my installation of MSM is working fine - all the templates/sub-folders on that site work too.

I can create a new sub-folder with a static html file on my new site and I can view it in the browser (00.00.000.000/something) even though I have EE installed. It’s as if my request is not going through the index.php file like it should.

Am I missing something?
Anybody else have this issue? Thanks.

To assist in troubleshooting…

You might try adding the domain name to the hosts file which will bypass dns servers.

Then you can test at the real domain name and, at least, eliminate any issues that are occurring because you’re using an ip address.

Help with hosts file modify can be found here.

Once you’re done testing and ready to launch site… don’t forget to change your hosts file back.

Thanks Todd.

‘Twas a Stupid mistake on my part - The problem was that I was forgetting to add index.php in my url string (00.00.000.000/index.php/something) - I have a .htaccess on my mainsite but not the new site.

Also I had changed the $qtype variable in the main index file to ‘2’ and so ‘/index.php/’ needed to be ‘/index.php?/’ - anywho I changed $qtype back to 0 and added a new .htaccess file and it’s working now.

(Testing a site using only an ipaddress is pretty much the same. The only thing you need to do is give the ip address a default url in Plesk and then that ip will show the site whether you have the url pointed to the name server or not.)

Thanks again.

Glad you got it working!

Confirmed to work with EE 2.0 PB and MSM.

Thank you very much!

I was adding another subdomain today and got hung up for quite awhile on one issue. You might note that if you add another subdomain, you should reconfigure the vhost of the subdomain and also the root domain. So:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng --reconfigure-vhost --vhost-name=subdomain.domain.com

and then:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng --reconfigure-vhost --vhost-name=domain.com

Then restart the server:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

I poured through this thread several times looking for other tweaks that people have posted and while this might have been a common sense thing for some, it wasn’t common sense for me. 😊 Hope it helps.

One other note that I might add to this thread. If you’re using https and calling files from the same directory that http calls from, you should also add a vhost_ssl.conf to the conf directory following the exact same procedure outlined earlier in this thread.

Add the exact same lines in vhost_ssl.conf.

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs">
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value safe_mode off
</Directory>

After doing so…

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng --reconfigure-vhost --vhost-name=domain.com

and restart apache

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

We ran into a problem trying to upload files while logged into the CP through https. Adding the vhost_ssl.conf fixed that issue for us.

I’m having a bit of an issue getting this to work properly.

On a Mediatemple DV 3.0 server I have the following setup:

Site 1: testsite.com
EE and MSM installed at: testsite.com/system/

vhosts.conf contains:

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/testsite.com/httpdocs">
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value safe_mode off
</Directory>

Seems to be working great.

Site 2: new.othersite.com
path.php contains:

<?php
// ------------------------------------------------------
// DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE A REASON TO

// ------------------------------------------------------
// Path to the directory containing your backend files

$system_path = "/var/www/vhosts/testsite.com/httpdocs/system/";
$site_name = "newsite";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative
?>

vhosts.conf contains:

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/othersite.com/subdomains/new/httpdocs">
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value safe_mode off
</Directory>

Site 2 Displays:

The system path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open your path.php file and correct the path.

I’ve gone through this post a few times. I’m fairly handy with the terminal and was able to properly use the websrvmng command and restart apache.

Can anyone provide any insight? Is it because I’m going straight to a subdomain with Site 2? All of the posts above seem to suggest that the second site is within the same domain as the first site. Is there a “more global” vhosts.conf that can be set?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi again all,
I just wanted to check in on my above post re: cross-domain access with MSM on Mediatemple DV 3.0. If I can’t get this figured out, I may use two EE installs for the time being. And, if I do that, how hard will it be to migrate the second site into MSM in the future?

Thanks!

Greg