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I am having trouble getting a brand new install working on a subdomain. It is the latest build. I have the files installed within the subdomain folder on my server. I get a blank page when I enter the admin url (dev.mysite.com/admin.php) and I get the following error when I check the index page (dev.mysite.com/index.php).

Your config file does not appear to be formatted correctly.

I have checked that these files have uploaded correctly and I have sent an email to my provider (engine hosting) to check if there is any php version conflict (yet to receive a reply). I have searched the forums for this error but none of the fixes work for me.

I seem to remember with 1.x versions of EE that there was some path setting to change in the index file or some other file if I was using a subdomain but I can’t for the life of me find this in the docs or on the forums.

I should also point out that I had a working version of EE 2 on this same subdomain which I trashed and reinstalled after I found a mysql error (unknown column) when trying to install the Mountee module.

Any ideas appreciated.

You might want to add this to your admin.php and system/index.php files.

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

It will crank up the PHP error reporting and perhaps uncover the issue.

Hello Tim,

Thank you for posting your question on the ExpressionEngine forums. Sounds like you needs some help getting a subdomain working with ExpressionEngine.

Have you seen this article titled Running Multiple Domains or Subdomains or Subsites that exists in our Wiki? In it we cover editing the paths that, you rightly suspected, need to be edited.

If you find you have more questions, please let me know!

Cheers,

Thanks Siffring and Dan. I knew there was something I was missing. I’ll check out that Wiki entry but it does appear that this may be PHP related and the kind folk at Engine Hosting are moving this account to a different cluster running the latest version of PHP. I’ll report back if i continue to have issues. Thanks. Tim

Tim,

Glad to see that you’ve got this working now. I’m going to close out this thread, but feel free to post again when you have more questions.

Sean