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Greetings. I think I’ve painted myself into a corner, so I’m hoping to get some help on my options at this point.

Awhile back I finished a site for a client. You’ll note it’s actually found in a sub-directory. Since the company has fairly significant contrasts in divisions, they generally structure “division redesigns” rather than full site redesigns (unfortunately for us!).

In hindsight I should have installed EE (1.6.8) in the root directory, however it was installed here: mpechicago.com/coffee/system

While the site works well and the client is very happy with everything, we are now getting ready to design/develop a second division (to be based closely to the Coffee site’s EE templates).

We purchased Multiple Sites Manager specifically with the purpose of managing each division. However, I’m not realizing we might be stuck at the moment. Since MPE is structured to have a “home” page, and each division can be considered a sub-directory, we need to have the new division fall into the URL as so:

http://www.mpechicago.com/food-chemical

However under the current install, the Sites Manager only allows us to create a new site here:

http://www.mpechicago.com/coffee/food-chemical

Obviously it’s fairly critical we get the URLs accurate for each division…

It seems the only option I have at this point is to move the /system/ folder out of /coffee/ and into the root… while this might seem simple enough (change a few config paths, etc), the twist is the client has an old coffee “site” including all old files within the /coffee/ folder which need to stay put (redirects, seo, yada yada)... since EE automatically creates the URL folders for structure, wouldn’t that be an issue?

Furthermore, is there some way to tweak the Multiple Sites Manager to be able to build new sites outside of the /coffee/ directory, to get the accurate URL?

Somewhat long-winded question, I apologize. Any help is appreciated.

Hi, greatbigcircle. With the MSM, the important thing is to have an accurate path back to the system folder. In your case, you’d need to specify a full system path, something like: /path/domain/coffee/system. Then as long as you have no mod_security issues,  you’d be OK.

Another workaround could be moving your install up a folder, and then using the Pages module, build out the old path. This would be a bit trickier.

Does that help?

Sue:

Thank you for you response.

How do I set an accurate path back to the system folder in MSM? Seems that would be the
easiest method to proceed… just don’t have much experience with MSM.

As for mod_security issues, how can I double check that?

Thanks again!

Setting an accurate path back is fairly easy..

EEHowTo:// Where Am I?

As far as mod_security goes, you can check for that from within EE itself at:

CP Home > Tools > Utilities > PHP Info

Does that help?

That did the trick. All URLs are accurate and point correctly. Thank you!

Excellent! Please post again in case there’s anything else.