two diff sites still shareing admin

**sirryche** · 15 Jan 2009, 02:58 PM

not sur this is where to post this but here gose.

site 1 is in root file http://xxx.xxxx.com
site 2 is in folder of root http://xxx.xxxx.com/xxxxx/xxx/xxx

now what i am attepteing is moving site one to site two. site two was clean install same version 137. different new database.

heres the problem when i log into admin from site 1 http://xxx.xxxx.com/admin and do adjustments everything on site two also changes. if i goto site two and add/delete a new admin user at http://xxx.xxxx.com/xxxxx/xxx/xxx/admin that user is add/deleted also on site 1

when i adjust my templates column boxes site 1 works fine but it will mirror onto site 2 and any box layout on site 2 will bee adjusted in the admin section but the acutual website ther are no changes on site 2. when i adjust on site 2 the admin section shows changes but none are made the the template but site one template changes.

i have been thru bot config in both sites at

>includes>config
>admin>includes>config

the differnece between two sites in config are the website locations site 1 would be http://xxx.xxxx.com and site two would be http://xxx.xxxx.com/xxxx/xxx/xx when the config asks for //http_server, https_server etc.

confused

found one section under admin/includes/config that i forgot to change to site 2 address now the template system is broke and getting error Object of class queryFactoryResult could not be converted to string in /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxxx/html/WEBSITES/xxxx/web/admin/includes/functions/html_output.php on line 333
so it wont let me change template. hmmmm

as for why i am change locations is the site i have is the older 137 and my template and some mods won't work with 138 so before i go thru the major headaches to upgrade i will wait for newst zen. i thought i would only have to change anything worded with site 1 locations to site 2 and backup database in site 1 reinstall at site 2 and keep stor open. well sofar no goood..

**sirryche** · 15 Jan 2009, 03:17 PM

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eeerrrr thought the abouve missed site rename was the problem but both admin sites control each OTHER still so somewhere there is stiil a place i need to change from site one to site 2 any help would be great thanks.

more info on sites

both zen 137 with same mods and upgrades
databases was copy from site one to site 2
ooh one diffrence i saw is site 1 is using php4.1 but site two is using php5 not sure if thats the problem. will create another database with php4.1 and copy site 1 on to it and then change site2 database to the new php4.1 to see if any difference.

**sirryche** · 15 Jan 2009, 10:16 PM

well i had some sparetime and did some looking on config files. i found another post that is going the opposite way of me. they are going from folder to root while i am going from root to folder.

after looking at that post (i dig it up for you) i think i see my error. i will make another attemp tonight to fix my error in my config files and post back.

**sirryche** · 16 Jan 2009, 01:17 AM

okay i have fixed my problem. i just sat down and went thru my cofig files to make sure they were right. here what i did

site 1 is http //www.xxx.com and is root

site 2 is http //www.xxx.com/bbb/www and is folder

i have a shared hosting so i can run multi websites from one account. i needed to get the main store out of site 1 and in root out and put in site 2 in a folder .but didn't want to mess it up and lose data. so i copied everything from site 1 and created a second database so i have 2 identical stores running 2 databases one in root and new one in folder. what happend is that after i changed both confiqure files both admin sections controlled site 1 from two diffrent admin pages. it turns out in the long run when i had the website address corrected i did not change the database in site 2 under admin>includes/config to the new database. so i was still attached to site 1 database and not making anychanges in site two. gose to show something easy can be harder than you expect if you don't take the time to read everything.

**sirryche** · 16 Jan 2009, 03:09 AM

ok now i am confused

2 sites excetlly the same

site one 1 http:// xxx.xxxx.com root folder so all the change in config would be define('HTTP_SERVER','http:// xxx.xxxx.com/') .... ETC ETC ETC

site 2 is http:// xxx.xxx.com/bbb.fff so all the config files i had define('HTTP_SERVER','http:// xxx.xxx.com/bbb.fff/')

so am thinking now when i take site 2 live and point the main domain name http:// xxx.xxxx.com to it i now would have the HTTP_SERVER etc set up like site 1 and then change all the DIR_WS_CATALOG....... [etc etc] with '/bbb.fff/ now instead of '/' correct???? somebody let me know if i am on the right track please thanks

**tony_sar** · 16 Jan 2009, 03:30 AM

so this is what i so far understood from your post
You had a store in root .
you have created second store in folder under your root .

now you want your domain point to your store when someone type the url. www.abcd.com . right ?

if you have test your second store and if everything is working well . then all you have to do is to point your domain to new store by using your control panel provided by your host ..

**sirryche** · 16 Jan 2009, 04:20 AM

yes first store is under root
second store is in a folder under root

like to move first store to folder hence second store

but i was thinking if my domain for second store changes from www. abcde.com/abc/abc to www.abcde.com than wont i have to change the HTTP_SERVER from www.abcde.com/abc/abc to www.abcde.com and all the other DIR's from '/" to 'abc/abc' ? for my thinking is zen would be looking for domain www.abcde.com/abc/abc and not www.abcde.com right. hope i cleared it up some. i think i'm on the right track.

maybe i'm just over thinking it. thanks for the help

**tony_sar** · 16 Jan 2009, 05:04 AM

the folder that you used to install zencart , is considered to be zencart's root . if you used zencart installer (zc_install) for your second store , then zencart will create all correct paths for you , if you are simply moving files form root to new location . then Yes , you need to modify the paths in both configure.php files to reflect correct path to your stores , where needed in those two files.

as for database , i am not sure why you created a second one since both have same products ??