MultiSite Module Support Thread

[sandihudson]

Okie dokie we're down to the LAST issue and we'll be rolling.

Our main site is worthsoftballbats.com and we bought a wildcard SSL for that so it would cover all subdomains.

Then we setup a couple of child sites, one of which is allbaseballbats.com, as an add-on domain. In CPanel, that shows up as allbaseballbats.worthsoftballbats.com as a subdomain.

So now I set the config file for allbaseballbats.com_config.php to look like this:
<?php
define('STORE_NAME','All Baseball Bats'); //Store Name
define('STORE_OWNER','All Baseball Bats'); //Store Owner
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');
$template_dir = "allbaseballbats";
define('SITE_NAME','allbaseballbats');
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://allbaseballbats.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://allbaseballbats.worthsoftballbats.com');
define('CATEGORIES_ROOT','0'); //root categories is 1 for this site
?>

The problem is that on the checkout page I get this error:
"the domain allbaseballbats.worthsoftballbats.com does not exist."

If I take out the worthsoftballbats in the https:// line, the checkout page comes up but also with a warning that the page is insecure.

I guess what I need is some guidance on correctly setting up the config to work with the wildcard SSL. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks for your help!

[swilliams88]

I'm having trouble getting it to work with my Wildcard SSL as well. Anyone have that issue before?

[swilliams88]

The SSL issue was on the part of our host and has been resolved.

Does anyone use Multisite Module with Moneris eselect?

We have to specify a Response URL that the user gets redirected to after the transaction and I'm not sure what to put in there as it could have come from any one of the subdomains we use in the multisite module.

Anyone have this issue as well?

[sandihudson]

Swilliams,

You got the SSL working? Can you perhaps enlighten those of us who are having difficulties with it?

Thanks!

[swilliams88]

Yes I got it working but I don't know what to tell you -- all I did was send a message to my host to have them look into it. I have no idea what they did, unfortunately. I think it had to do with the authentication of the Wildcard SSL certificate. Best of luck!

[colk]

Hi

I have installed the multisite mod with 1.3.9h and works well except for 1 little thing. Should the site name should apperar in the edit orders or the invoice? I can see the file admin/order.php has referance to the site name and in the orders database there is order_site which holds the name of the site that placed the order. I have checked the database and the name is their. I have re uploaded the moded files but still nothing. I have looked on this thead but could not find any referance to this problem.

Is this a problem or is this information not ment to be displayed?

Thanks
Col

[jmsnyder23]

I've installed this mod and unfortunately have blank pages for both my domains. There are no error logs in my cache folder. I have followed everything I can think of to get the pages to work, searched through this thread and took all the suggestions, and still nothing.

Now I can't even "undo" everything to get back to where I was before.

My config files are set up according to the install file. I don't know what to post here that hasn't been posted before to "fix" things.

One thing I did notice is that I only have one template language (default all) listed under my Template Selection area of the admin. I don't have any option to change to another template.

Any suggestions on how to get the pages to display would be great. I apologize for not posting more but, to be honest, I don't know what else to post about the issue. The pages don't display and I don't know why :)

[sandihudson]

The sites have been working really great so far. This module is complex to be sure, but so worth the work!

It must be possible to have different Featured Products on each of the sites - can someone outline how to do that?

We have products set up to be featured but they show up on all the sites. I'm not seeing how to define which sites have which products as "Featured Products" isn't a category by itself. It just has one list of products.

I see this bit of code:
define('SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_CATEGORY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS','0'); //Show Featured Products on Main Page - Category with SubCategories

Does that mean I need to create separate categories for each site's featured products, i.e. Featured Products - Site 1, Featured Products - Site 2 and so on?

Any help is appreciated!

[noppie]

below it the direction you need.
and here is the web to get them all
http://www.thisdomain.net/dev/


you find this in your admin under tools

multisite tools.

The MultiSite module works by filtering the categories with the function cat_filter. It only displays the categories that have the name of the site (constant SITE_NAME) in html comment in the categories descriptions. Therefore, you need to add this description to EVERY categories description that have to be display in a shop. Sub categories Included!

Example of html comment:

<!--site1-site2-site3--> Description of a category that will be displayed in site1, site2 and site3.

This comment will allow this category for the shops site1 site2 and site3. the site names HAVE to be separated by "-".
If you have Lots of categories, you can use a query that will do that for all of them, like the following:

REMEMBER OF ENTERING YOUR SITE_NAME INSTEAD OF your_site_name1 AND your_site_name2 !

This SQL query anable you to add sites to all your categories but you can also do that by writing the <!--site1-site2-site3--> to the categories descriptions one by one. Do not for get the subcategories !

UPDATE categories_description
SET categories_description = CONCAT("<!--your_site_name1-your_site_name2-->",categories_description)
WHERE categories_description NOT LIKE "%-your_site_name1-your_site_name2-%"

once you have put your html comments in your categories, they should appear on the front end of your shop. If a category has no html comment, it won't be displayed in any sites.

[sandihudson]

Here's how the products are currently set up in the admin:

Type 1
Manufacturer 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 2
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 3
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Type 2
Manufacturer 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 2
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 3
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3

That's all pretty straightforward. All the categories and products show up on all the sites - that's the intent.

The issue is that for the Featured Products, if I select 5 products to be featured, they show up on all the sites. That's my understanding of how Multisite is supposed to work. However, each site needs to have different featured products.

I tried setting up the categories like this:

Store 1
Type 1
Manufacturer 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 2
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 3
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3

Store 2
Type 1
Manufacturer 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 2
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Manufacturer 3
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3

What happens is that "Store 1" and "Store 2" now show up in the category list in the sidebox on every site, even if I set the relations to show on only one site. Not good.

No matter how I arrange and rearrange the categories and subcategories they all still show on all the sites.

I'm missing something :) Can you explain it in very small words so I can understand? LOL