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I went ahead and bought MSM, and after following the installation instructions (or so I thought), I can’t get the second site to display.

Here’s the setup - sorry if this is a little wordy.  I converted gregfuller.com to 1.6, then decided to stage MSM on localhost to work out any quirks.  I downloaded all the files from my hosted site, backed up and restored the database to a local database, changed a few configuration paths and got the site totally functional on localhost.

I followed the installation instructions, and all seems well in the control panel.  All three sites are in reflected in the control panel, and the imports I did placed the entries under the proper site.

So, now I have the control panel functional, and the original site still displays swell.

My server root is localhost, but my ee site root is localhost/ee (I’ve got other stuff on the local apache server)

I create a subdirectory named ee_sites under the ee directory to hold a directory for each of the three sites.  The idea is to get sites 2 and 3 working, then move the original site under the same directory structure.

So, for the second site, or the first new site, I create directory under ee_sites named painters_diary,  then copy index.php and path.php from the ee directory to this directory.  I edited the files and set “general configuration” to the best of my understanding.

When I point my browser to http://localhost/ee/ee_sites/painters_diary I get a blank screen.  Same if I add “/index.php” to the end of the url.  I do have entries under the painters_diary site.

Here’s some stuff I think might be relevant:
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Site management site short name: painters_diary.
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Control Panel: Painter’s Diary > Admin > System Preferences > General Configuration
Nane of your site’s index page: index.php (but I tried it blank as well)
URL to the root directory of your site: http://localhost/ee/ee_sites/painters_diary
URL to your Control Panel index page: http://localhost/ee/eesys/index.php  (unchanged)
URL to your “themes” folder: http://localhost/ee/themes/    (nchanged)
Theme Foler Path: C:\wamp\www\ee\themes (unchanged) 

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c:\wamp\www\ee\ee_sites\painters_diary\path.php: ( tried setting some of the other extra values but to no avail so I commented them out

<?php

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

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

$system_path = “../../eesys/”;
$site_name = “painters_diary”;

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

//$template_group = “notebook”;
//$template = “”;
//$site_url = “http://localhost/ee/ee_sites/painters_diary”;
//$site_index = “”;
//$site_404 = “”;
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

?>

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Now I do have a .htaccess file.  I tried it without the one at localhost/ee and with and with the one at localhost/ee/ee_sites/painters_diary.  I also tried hittling the painters_diary site with and without the index.php.

Here is the .htaccess just in case it makes a difference:

RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ee/index.php/$1 [L]

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Above is the .htaccess under localhost/ee. I change it appropriately, I think, for the one under the diary site. (As well as trying it without a .htacess at all.

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Any help / ideas on where I went wrong would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I’d take out the htaccess file for now- and then I’d alter the path.php in the subfolder:

//$template_group = "notebook";
//$template = "index";
//$site_url = "http://localhost/ee/ee_sites/painters_diary";
//$site_index = "index.php";
//$site_404 = "";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

Those shouldn’t be commented out- I’m a bit fuzzy on that bit.  Are they commented out in the actual file?  Remove the comments.  Let’s see how far that gets us.  For comparison- here’s my path.php for a subdomain setup for a multi-site:

<?php

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

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

$system_path = "../system/";

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

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "http://test.media-cow.com/";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$site_name = 'test';
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

?>

But- I am using htaccess.  And don’t have quite the same folder structure.

Thanks Robin,

I had the items uncommented, then commented them in one of my desperate attempts to get something to show.  Your example helped.  I changed a few of the values, the made some changes to the template set and it worked.

Sweet- I never did spot the exact issue- but glad you got it working!