Multisite... pulling my hair out!

By pfmj2005 on 29 Oct 2005 at 02:55 UTC

Ok... I have a flash header in my theme and I am going to have a frontpage that allows you to choose whether you want flash or not on the page... it will be like this...

Frontpage-------> site.com(with flash) OR noflash.site.com(without flash)

So I figured I could do this with multisite...
But... After having read all the multisite posts I could find I still have problems...

I have my server set-up like this:

Public HTML
------->Home(codebase)
------------>sites
------------------>site.com - baseurl = "http://www.site.com/home"
------------------>site.com.noflash - baseurl = "http://www.site.com/home/noflash

What is going wrong? I cannot get it to work... It all looks right to me...

Comments

error

pfmj2005 commented 29 October 2005 at 03:00

It is site.com.home.noflash instead of site.com.noflash

it was just a typo in the post...

You're getting 404s, right?

binford2k commented 29 October 2005 at 08:36

The target you're pointing to must exist. In the example you show above, the directory $webroot/home/noflash should exist. If the content is the same, simply link it to the $webroot/home directory.

In other words, go into your website directory and type ln -s . noflash

The docs aren't too great in this regard. It took me quite some time to figure it out as well.

A custom module to handle this might be a better solution anyways.

Module...

pfmj2005 commented 29 October 2005 at 16:23

I dont have shell access... so how would I go about making this module? I am not so good with php... at all...

Ok... Little help here

pfmj2005 commented 1 November 2005 at 04:01

Nobody is replying... can anyone help me?

Symbolic links

styro commented 1 November 2005 at 04:58

(Edit: replied to wrong comment - doh!)

Does your admin interface have anything in it that does 'symbolic links' at all? If so use that.

If not you might need to upload a php script to create a symbolic link.

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php

Translating ln -s . noflash into PHP would look something like this:

  symlink ( ".", "noflash" );

--
Anton

Themes...(above did work! Thank You!)

pfmj2005 commented 2 November 2005 at 21:47

I for some reason cannot get each site to have different themes... I have tried to set them in each of their settings.php files and that did not work and then I tried to do it in the admin/themes area and still did not work... both themes are enabled... what am I doing wrong now?

symbolic link

styro commented 2 November 2005 at 22:40

Are the theme directories appearing in both sites subdirectories even when you only put them in one? If so, that would be due to the symbolic link - you really only have one set of files just now with two 'entry points' for them. If you wanted them to be different you won't be able to have them linked. You could make a copy instead, but that will be two sets of files to maintain.

And if both sites are sharing the same database, it also stands to reason that the enabled settings are also shared.

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Anton

this is how it is...

pfmj2005 commented 2 November 2005 at 22:47

I have the theme for noflash in the noflash sites directory and it only shows up in the admin/themes of noflash... when I look at admin/themes in my main site I dont get the theme in the noflash directory... so from what I understand I should be able to have my main theme for the main site and have a different one for noflash...