Multi-Site Module Beta Release !

[david.buckley]

Peter,

I had a quick look and you have two accounts.

:)

Have a play and let me know what you find out. all should be good though.

I also checked what email addresses I had configured and they all point to my work account, so if anything fires off an email to the shop admin types then I should get it.

:)

Thanks for the interest in this module.

Laters,

DAVE

:)

[shopyoungway]

ok so i have installed this and i get a wierd template with nothin in it, no boxes or anything what am i doing wrong, www.youngwaypc.com can anyone point me in the right direction.

[david.buckley]

OK I had the same thing on my sub shops.

What you need to do is go into the admin section.

Select your template in the admin bit and then go to the part of the admin section where you can assign side-boxes.

Hit the go button and you should be good to go.

If you ahve no products in your categories, then you need to add the comments to the description field as indicated in the documentation for the multishop module.

:)

Hope that this helps. If you need more help just post back.

:)

[Gerome]

ok so i have installed this and i get a wierd template with nothin in it, no boxes or anything what am i doing wrong, www.youngwaypc.com can anyone point me in the right direction.

Also, did you need to have:
$template_dir = "youngwaypc";
define('SITE_NAME','youngwaypc');

in the file: includes/config_sites/www.youngwaypc.com_config.php

This tell what is the template name for your site. you also have to rename all the folder of your template to youngwaypc (this can apear annoying but it will really help if have more sites...)


And you need to add that at the beginning of your configure.php:
include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php');

[shopyoungway]

ok i have done as the readme says, and what the info says but must bemissing something, i got all the way to the constant query not sure how to use it. but cannot get this to work can someone let me know what i am doing wrong. i got the system to show the right template, got it to show the boxes but no categories more then likely has to do with it pointing the wright way with the switches, but cannot get it to work after that. none of the info links work nothing.
www.youngwaypc.com

[david.buckley]

OK So if you have sideboxes, but no categories or products then you missed the bit about adding the <!-- sitename--> comment to the category description.

sitename must equal the 'sitename' that you have in your config files.

:)

Hope this helps it is being typed after not much sleep.

:)

Dave

[shopyoungway]

everything is correct all configs, and site name etc. i have www.youngwaypc.com_config.php

sitename is youngwaypc
etc.

but something is just not right. i have the system set up to show one category as a test but once you click on any information link, etc. it just does not show up.

[david.buckley]

That is some weird behaviour.

I see that you only had the 'Hardware' category. You might want to add the <!--sitename--> comments to one of the sub categories that actually has some products in it.

:)

I tried to have a look at your ....._config.php file but I got an access denied error.

Could you please post what you have in the www.youngwaypc.com_config.php file please.

:)

[shopyoungway]

<?php
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');
$template_dir = "youngwaypc";
define('SITE_NAME','youngwaypc');
?>

the template dir. is youngwaypc

the sitename was changed as well in template_info.php:

<?php
$template_name = 'youngwaypc';
$template_version = 'Version 1.5';
$template_author = 'Jade True - Sage Fish.com';
$template_description = 'This template set is designed to be easily modified using only the style sheet to change colors, fonts, and the store logo. Three images are required; logo.jpg, header_bg.jpg, and tile_back.jpg.';
$template_screenshot = 'scr_nifty_zen.jpg';
?>

and the configure.php:
<?php
/**
*
* @package Configuration Settings
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
*/


include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php');
/*************** NOTE: This file is similar, but DIFFERENT from the "admin" version of configure.php. ***********/
/*************** The 2 files should be kept separate and not used to overwrite each other. ***********/


i finally got the hardware category to show up, but its actually if you click on any of the information pages like:
Information

* Shipping & Returns
* Privacy Notice
* Conditions of Use
* Contact Us
* Site Map
it will actually just disapear, now i have made no changes to the DB other then the order_site update, i could not figure out the other update:

/* This query will add the constent names to the description of the configur######## settings in the admin section */
UPDATE configuration
SET configuration_description = CONCAT(configuration_description,"<br /> ",configuration_key)
WHERE configuration_description NOT LIKE CONCAT("&#37;<br /> ",configuration_key)
/* end of query */
but have seperated all the "youngwaypc" folders as it says etc. and did the <!---youngwaypc-->
in the hardware category just to get it to show. but did nothing to any info boxes. i just cannot see where to figure it out

[david.buckley]

Yeah I see the dissappearing bit.

Really weird.

I also tried to log in / register but IE told me that there were errors on the page

Two things that I would try first.

1. revert back to the classic template for testing purposes.

See what happens when you set things back to the default template. There should be nothing that can go wrong on that template. Just modify your www.youngwaypc.com_config.php file and replace 'youngwaypc' with 'classic' for the template name.

:)

2. I found several times when I was uploading stuff if I was overwriting a file it didn't always overwrite correctly. I found it better to delete the file I had updated from the server and then republish.
So what I am saying here is delete everything, except your database, from the server and republish the lot. It's a long shot but it might help.

Cheers,

DAVE

:)