MultiSite Module Support Thread

[shopyoungway]

one i would like to add to above is also to do redirects just have you sys admin turn on wildcard dns this will allow you to create sub domains, etc. and it will work better.

[lebrand2006]

My friend Gerome,

thank you for your reply. Also i have to thank my friend Young.

You know, here in Greece ( not all of us !!! ) call eachother "friend", so I hope you do not mind if I call you My friend !!

Well, I think I can manage configure an .htaccess ; I found hundreds of sites with directions and examples.

As I understand, MultiSite is a very very good idea, but it is not complete; or I better say with not completed instructions.

I understand your hard work, but in my oppinion I would prefer that Zen Cart developers ( or even those who have some ideas but can not actual code , like me [new in PHP but understand how it works] ) would act as a team, as a community.

A team is allways stronger, everybody knows that. I know there are hundreds that just visit the site, take the code and bye-bye. In my first opportunity, when my economics are better, I would like to donate at least 150 euros, to zen cart team. Even to you, when you belong to that team.

We should not forget to thank all those who participate in this community, because without them, this would just be a common web site.

All those Zen Cart users, who hard test everything they find here, even they do not ( or they do not think to ) donate. Because even this way, zen cart is working as a team.

With my little English, it is very hard to expres what I want to say; forgive me for that.

Well, everybody here is searching to find something he needs for his site or his client's site.

And everybody is searching for someone to help him. It would just be more easier if there where teams to develop and teams to hard test.

It is hard to believe that something like that could happen in Greece (!!!) but it can easily happen on internet, especialy here in this community.

So, I wanted to say that I found this module here and I tried to test it. I wrote some ideas without asking from someone to help me or make my ideas code for zen cart.

I managed to make a site with the feature of subscription, asking help in this forum, but understanding that here it is not a site that some others work for you to make money. Somebody helped me a lot, giving me the basic instructions.

In the end ( knowing just a little PHP ) I managed to make some good modifications, understanding better how zen cart works, and taking advantage of some of it's features, so I made a site working with subscriptions without creating a module, or how you want to call it. And when I write full instructions I will post it here(in downloads).

Maybe, some developers, find some good ideas, or they write a new module.

For now, I do not have the time to study so much, to write more complicated code to "produce" a module.

So, this way I give a specific idea, and somebody else who can produce a module maybe write it and post it or keep it for himself.

Anyway, what I did works well, even it is based on modifications and I want to share it with all the community.

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I just have one question for multisites.

Lets say that I use site links. What I see is that all links keep the same SiD. As for session id there are some configurations in admin->configuration->sessions, that one of them has to do with session recreation; should this be set to false ?

Hope to hear from all of you soon

Best Regards

[Gerome]

I just have one question for multisites.

Lets say that I use site links. What I see is that all links keep the same SiD. As for session id there are some configurations in admin->configuration->sessions, that one of them has to do with session recreation; should this be set to false ?

Nice speech Felix. I understand your point of view...

Never try to change it. Why do you ask this question ? is that because the site links don't work ?

The file:
includes\init_includes\overrides\init_sessions.php
gives the priority to the SiD parameter instead of the cookie for the session creation... This is how the site_links works, by keeping the same session through this link. I did it because the cookies are made for one domain, therefore, the 2nd site can't read a cookie of the first site.

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

Yes, you can override the shipping configuration from the config file of a site (folder "config_sites")

However, I think that you can also specify a shipping in Zencart that is relevent of the country of the customers. In this way, the shipping to US and to Canada will work to both of your sites.

Well, knowing that I can not manage my subdomains, what files should I duplicate to make multisite work ?

You have to duplicate the whole folder of your shop.
Also, you have to think of changing the site location from the config file of each shop ...
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '.....

[lebrand2006]

You have to duplicate the whole folder of your shop.
Also, you have to think of changing the site location from the config file of each shop ...
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '.....

Thank you for your information.

But what about DIR_WS_CATALOG ?

Don't I have to configure this define also ?

As about "admin" folder, is there any need to duplicate it too ?

Is there any way to use the same "images" folder ?
Because if there are some hundreds of images this would be very usefull.

Thanks

[Gerome]

you can find DIR_WS_CATALOG in your includes/configure.php. you will have to change it if you shop is located in a different folder (as it represents th location of your shop on the server)

I am afraid that I don't know anyway of using the images from another server. The problem is that Zen-Cart need to access the images from the serverside (to check the size and the presence of the images) and also from internet via URL.

you could maybe make a script that will update one folder image with another ...
Or you could change of server and get one that allows you to have 2 domains targeting the same folder.

You only need one admin folder in one of your shops.

[reza]

hi

finally my sites work good, the problem (if it's a problem) is that filter function doesn't work on the category css flyout (provided by Dr. byte, or header css flyout in apple zen template), so all categories are shown in the category flyout sidebox of the site that has not been selected by <!--site1--> description site selector,
any idea, how can I resolve this problem? please
2- still I am waiting about the changes in order.php in regard to last patch provided for zen1.3.7 in last week? I didn't upgrade untill you answer gerome.

[reza]

i should add this paragraph to the above message too:

3- this problem becomes harder when you are using ajax yahootree category sidebox, so it doesn't show any categoris at all? is there any idea to solve this problem as the ajax contribution for big sites (at least for main shop that may show all categories) is very primordial the normal category box.

[xzc]

You have to duplicate the whole folder of your shop.
Also, you have to think of changing the site location from the config file of each shop ...
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '.....

I am new to zencart and php, By "duplicate the whole folder of your shop", do you mean if I have zencart installed under htdocs/zen-cart-v1.3.7, then I copy folder "zen-cart-v1.3.7" to htdocs/shop2 ? and shop2 is the second shop ? Thanks a lot.

[Gerome]

I am new to zencart and php, By "duplicate the whole folder of your shop", do you mean if I have zencart installed under htdocs/zen-cart-v1.3.7, then I copy folder "zen-cart-v1.3.7" to htdocs/shop2 ? and shop2 is the second shop ? Thanks a lot.

Yea this is how is work. However, I adviced to do so, only if you can't change the target of one of your DNS.

I can see that you have a folder htdocs which means you might be using apache. You don't need to duplicate the zen-cart folder with apache since you can use virtual host in order to make two dns in the same folder.

for exemple:

the file index.php of you zencart shop should be accessed from www.site1.com/index.php and www.site2.com/index.php and then your multishop will work correctly

[xzc]

You have to duplicate the whole folder of your shop.
Also, you have to think of changing the site location from the config file of each shop ...
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '.....

Also, I found the step sequence of the instructions seems not correct, step 3 and step 4 got twice. Also, I think if a picture could be added to show the multisite folder structure (imaging have 2 or 3 shops), that will really be of much help for all the users...
Thanks for your great work and hope it could be better and better ... Then more people will tend to be donating ... :)