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All of my companies websites are down. I updated the config.php file as per this article:

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/How_can_I_run_the_Discussion_Forums_from_a_subdomain_such_as_forums.example.com/

Apparently the copy on the server had some options written to it on install? I don’t have a backup of this config file. Any ideas? A prompt response would be super helpful 😊

UPDATE: I’ve got my companies’ main site up. I updated the config file per this article:
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Default_Config_Files/

but MSM(and all related sites) seems to not be working.

Two questions:
1. What lines of code do I need to put back into /system/expressionengine/config/config.php to get the other sites working?
2. Was there anything in the install process that prompted me to download a fresh copy of config.php? There may have been and I might’ve missed it. If not, it would be good to prompt folks to download a fresh copy of that file(and any other mission critical file) so we can at least have it on our local copies/SVN’s 😊

UPDATE: I found out the MSM issue; the last issue was that MSM needed to be enabled again through Admin>General Configuration . When checked, it adds this to the config.php:

$config['multiple_sites_enabled'] = "y";

Other sites back up now(and this config file is safely tucked away and committed to my SVN 😊 )

Again, maybe I missed something on install but I think it’d be beneficial to future devs to prompt them to download fresh copies of config and database.php .

So, you’re good now? Just making sure.

Hi, FlashBoyz - just to clarify; the database.php and config.php in the downloads are blank; these are populated during installation.  So you need to back these up separately, prompting to download them from our site wouldn’t have helped out here.

Hope that helps!

Ingmar: Yep, everything’s back to normal.

Lisa: Actually, I was talking about prompting devs at the end of the installation process(maybe just a little sentence on the ‘installation success’ screen.) It might be overkill to put that in but if I had a copy saved on my local machine/svn that would’ve saved us some downtime.

A very sound idea, I think, Flashboyz, given the criticality of what’s in the config.php and database.php files after an install completes.

I always do this, in fact.

I think suggestions of this type aren’t heard very well from here, though with all softheartedness it each time feels a shame.

The recommendation and likely the best thing then is probably to raise this as a Feature Request, in the forum topic for Feature Requests just below.

Nice input narration, I’ll post on that board.

Hi FlashBoyz,

Please do post a Feature Request for anything that you feel needs changing and will benefit the whole EE community. Are we ok to close this thread now?

Cheers

Greg

yep, this case is closed.

Excellent. Please do not hesitate to post again in case there’s anything else.