MultiSite Module Support Thread

[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!

[cablesimple]

Set the domain name and IP address in your hosts file

[jvoce]

Hi All,

I'm currently dusting off all my files on this mod as I haven't worked on it for a number of months. There is one thing that I'm trying to set up.

One of my two websites is for a select group of individuals, if an unauthorized person logs into that site I would rather have them redirected with their session id to the other (public) site. Right now the system defaults to the customer_authorization page, but I don't want them to see that page.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Jaret

[jvoce]

Okay, so it looks like all I need is to create a page which, when loaded, will automatically redirect to the other sit with the session id.

Anyone know how this can be done?

[cablesimple]

Hi jvoce,
Didn't spend a ton of time looking at this, but I'm thinking you would go to:

includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php

Look for:
if (isset($_GET['action']) && ($_GET['action'] == 'process'))

Catch the unwelcome customers in that section.

Redirect them using

zen_redirect($your_url ."?zenid=". zen_session_id())