MultiSite Module Support Thread

[milkyway]

Hi,

Anyone have a working copy of EZ-Pages filter for Multisite module?


I tried installing the release by streetglow, but it doesn't work in my v1.3.8 store.

Thank you!

Really appreciate any help!

[milkyway]

Anyone have solution for the linked products not showing up in different site?

Ie. We have product A,B,C,D,E,F under few categories, they are linked products, the category are different in each site, i.e site 1,2,3.

What we need:
Product A, B, C should be displayed in site 1 and 2 (using different category)
Product D, E only shows up in Site 3 only (using its own category)
Product F to shows up on Site 2 only (using its own category)

Problem is, when we change master category of a product, the linked product wont show in another site where the category filtered (turn off), but shows up on the site where master category is not filtered.

I think this was asked frequently in this forum, but no solutions yet, I do hope that someone willing to help us out, I believe this is a common needs for people who use this modules.

I'm willing to help, but have no clue where to start.

Thanks!

[milkyway]

Anybody can help us in above issues? really appreciate any helps!

Thanks

[jkovar]

E-mail issues. My second site (on a subdomain) is not sending e-mails. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

My main site www.atasteofwellness.com sends order e-mails OK.

My second site www.elpaso.atasteofwellness.com does not send emails.

I need the e-mails to go to different store owners.

Any help appreciated.

[aerografiks]

I'm at the end of my rope with this mod, i have managed to screw up 2 with the first being my main development platform. I'm willing to pay someone to get this mod up and running for me. If anyone out there is experienced with this and is willing to help me out please PM me. Thanks

[heapy]

Ok so I have spent ages to overcome the "1054 Unknown column 'CATEGORIES_ROOT' in 'where clause'" error - this was my own fault even though I pasted this via Dreamweaver I didn't notice that it failed due to permissions!

Now I have a formatting error, this I think is different to some side box's not showing, basically I can view the front page but it is just text with no formatting and if I click on a link/button I get a page cannot be found. I'm sure this is obvious but I can't figure out why?

website www.brightideasglobal.com/trade

Thanks in anticipation (would pay someone to sort this for me?)

[roylen1]

Ok so I have spent ages to overcome the "1054 Unknown column 'CATEGORIES_ROOT' in 'where clause'" error - this was my own fault even though I pasted this via Dreamweaver I didn't notice that it failed due to permissions!

Now I have a formatting error, this I think is different to some side box's not showing, basically I can view the front page but it is just text with no formatting and if I click on a link/button I get a page cannot be found. I'm sure this is obvious but I can't figure out why?

website www.brightideasglobal.com/trade

Thanks in anticipation (would pay someone to sort this for me?)

@heapy, looks like your template is not being found make sure you follow the following steps from the multisite instructions

Step 3. Create the configuration files of your sites

You now have to create a config file for each one of your sites !
The name of the file has to be:
"www.site1.com_config.php" (for the site targeted by the domain name www.site1.com)
This file "www.site1.com_config.php" has to contain:
<?php
$template_dir = "site1";
define('SITE_NAME','site1');
?>
$template_dir is the template that you want to use for this site

[roylen1]

This problem looks quite similar to what I recently ran into.

After a fresh zencart and multisite addon install for 3 domains I was hoping to be able to select any one of my templates and change the sideboxes associated with that template.

That is:
1. I went to Admin->Tools->TemplateSelection and selected a template.
2. I went to Admin->LayoutBoxesController to set up the sideboxes.
3. I repeated steps 1-2 for the other templates I had.

However, the sideboxes only appeared for the first domain that I configured.

After some debugging, I seems that after step 1 above, the zencart SQL table template_select's field called template_dir is not set to the newly selected template after step 1.

In MySQL, I issued the following command to verify this:

mysql> select * template_select;

I manually tried to set it and I was able to successfully update it and my sideboxes show up for mysite2!

mysql> update template_select set template_dir = 'mysite2' where template_id = '1'

So there appears to be something odd happening inside of
admin/template_select.php after the multisite addon perhaps(?)

The $template_dir variable is used in ./admin/layout_controller.php which configures the sideboxes. Without the $template_dir set it just uses the default.

So my three sites now have a categories sidebox working but it would be good to track down what is happening here.

I plan to investigate more if time permits.

Hope it helps someone.

I have the module working however advanced search seems to be broken and I cannot find a fix anywhere on the thread.

For your issue with the templates, make sure you follow "Step 3. Create the configuration files of your sites"
- basically all sites will use the admin from your main site.
- to verride this you need to enter the overides (including for templates) directly into the config files as shown in the examples provided in "Step 3. Create the configuration files of your sites" eg

$template_dir is the template that you want to use for this site

You can add constants for overriding of the default configuration from the database or from the configure.php, the following lines are only exemples:
//Do not display the categories at the main page for this site:
define('SHOW_CATEGORIES_ALWAYS','0');
//Display the categories of ID 5 as the main category of the website: define('CATEGORIES_START_MAIN','5');

[Mountain Mama]

Hello,

Has anyone been successful using the Multi Site module on a localhost or local host set up? There seems to be an issue because the domain is not www.site1.com but rather localhost/site1 and slashes cannot be used in file names (congfig_sites files). Has anyone worked this out? I have several live sites and I would much rather run this on my local host before uploading live.

I am using the latest version of Zen Cart and using a wampserver set up. I am using a fresh install as well. I can provide details if needed.

Thank you!

[webserious]

For anyone interested, I managed to get a column in the address_book database working for the SITE_NAME. Simply add to includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/create_account.php before:

zen_db_perform(TABLE_ADDRESS_BOOK, $sql_data_array);

ADD THIS LINE:

//Multisite Module - Add the order_site in the order table
$sql_data_array['site_name']=SITE_NAME;
//eof Multisite Module

This will let you know where your customers are coming from. I have Multisite Module installed on 4 sites using 1.3.8a.