MultiSite Module Support Thread

[shopyoungway]

ok so i have everything up and a test product now i have added a couple other mods, which overrite nothing, and applezen as a template....but can not see the category i have setup (yes i did set it up correctly) can not click on the top tab and go to my account was wondering if someone could help me take a look at this and see what i did wrong.
www.shopyouungway.com

[shopyoungway]

scratch that it was a bug in the template had to redo

[qsg28]

Hi,

I haven't installed this module yet, but I would like to know whether we can have 2 different shipping locations? site 1 for US location and site 2 for Canada.

By having 2 shipping location, I can have Canada Post module for Canada and USPS module for USA.

Currently,I have 1 site with 2 ZenCart installation with 2 separate database.

Thank you,

Felix

[stecrox]

HI there
Have you created a Modify process help file as I already have a site that is already live and running and can't copy the file over what I have already.
Thanks
STephen
http://www.emetpackaging.co.uk

[KThompson]

makenois,

I dont suggest using redirect.

PM me or email me your website details (domains for both sites and which is primary).

Ken Thompson

[KThompson]

same to you Five5

no clue what stecrox is talking about

[makenoiz]

Anyone find a magic way of transferring layout box setting from site to site without having to change the settings manually for each site? Would just like the same side boxes for all extra sites added.

Also, Ken do you know if the scripts can get "overloaded". We plan on having about 50 sites running on this system and they will all be pulling from the same directory so was not sure if this becomes and issue at some point.

Thanks!

makenoize

[cablesimple]

makenoiz,

I just keep a copy of the the layout_boxes sql create table code and do a find/replace on the site name. Then I insert the modified file back into the database and you settings will be the same for the new store. Just do a

mysqldump -u <user> -p<password> zencart_database --tables layout_boxes > layout_boxes.sql

When I'm not quite so lazy/busy I plan on building a little "setup" interface that will create the config files and insert the appropriate layout_boxes rows, but for now this is pretty quick.

I've been over this code pretty thoroughly with the modifications I've made to it, and haven't found anything introduced with this module that should cause any problems as the number of sites increase.

The only general performance suggestion I would have is to be careful how many products you put in a single category. This is a Zen Cart thing, nothing to do with MultiSite other than the fact that you may have more products than a single store. To give you some scale, with my dedicated MySQL server I need to keep the number of products in a single category under 5,000 for the store to perform adequately, which is highly unlikely for in most situations I would think.

[Calljj]

Does any have the scrolling specials box working, so that it only displays the products relevant to that site.

I have the

  $random_specials_sidebox_product = zen_random_select(cat_filter($random_specials_sidebox_product_query));

in the specials.php file, but it still pulls in ALL items listed as specials.

Thoughts?

[makenoiz]

Thanks cablesimple for your response above....

Heres another one.. Any one find a way to test a template before changing the DNS?

Thanks!