MultiSite Module Support Thread

[webserious]

In regards to the post above, I forgot you will need to run a query on your database as follows:

ALTER TABLE address_book ADD site_name varchar(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'no';


Make sure to change address_book if you have a prefiix to your tables.

[webserious]

I will post instructions for adding the site visibility to Customers in the admin tomorrow or the following day.

[karimm]

stuff4Toys,

The override system in ZenCart doesn't apply to the emails as of yet. I've come up with a couple solutions to use store custom graphics and to customize the variables that are used in the emails, but this does not allow you to use your own email template for each store. That being said it wouldn't be too difficult to hack that into the system. In case your interrested in my solutions though:

For the "front-end" emails such as the welcome email, and order confirmation I used the technique I just posted to jkovar.

For the order confirmations it's a bit more tricky. I posted a solution however in post#659 that works well for me.

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Regarding your second post. I just tested out the meta_tags.php override and it's working fine on my sites. For a test, try setting the HOME_PAGE variables specifically and see if they change your homepage title/description/keywords.
HOME_PAGE_TITLE
HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION
HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS

Stuff4toys,

Can you explain what you mean with this, how can i check if the meta_tags.php work before putting my updated site online.

Thanks

[Mountain Mama]

As I haven't received a response, I am posting again. Sorry if this is basic. I just haven't been able to figure it out.

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.

(When a make a file localhost_config.php, the template I am specifying loads, but only the header shows up.)

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!

[Calljj]

An update to my last post - I figured out a workaround for the Sideboxes not apprearing with multisite.

In my case I found that the "classic" & "template_default" templates show the sideboxes for the site I was having problems with.

I backed up my "classic" template. Copied my custom template files into includes/templates/classic - i.e. I copied my css files and images, etc into the classics folder and found that this worked.

I know that there are corresponding "classic" folders in the site like in the modules. I tried creating my own custom folders with that, but I wasn't successful yet.

I was also thinking about trying to install http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=260 to see if that would help with the "reset" sideboxes issue.

There is also a line at the bottom of http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...lates_-_Create that says - "You also need to copy the sidebox settings from the table layout_boxes; this can be done using the addon Import/export layout settings." The link there goes not seem to go to a downloadable product.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I'll post any other good results as I find them.

Lisa

I've just upgraded to 1.3.8a multisite from 1.3.7 multisite, and also suffered the missing sideboxes issue, but just on the right hand side. I hit the reset button under the sideboxes admin, and this did not resolve. It was actually my wordpress sidebox that wasn't working properly and was affecting the whole column. FOr those who are having issues, try just enabling a very very basic sidebox first, disabling all others.

[fotofx]

Remember, you need to have a template for each store. You then need to go into admin and one at a time select the template as the active one and go into layout boxes config and set up your sideboxes. All sideboxes are off by default. You can then switch back to the default template. If you do not do this it is like having all your sideboxes off. I am guessing that is your problem.

Steve

[bigwilliestyle]

I have half sorted it out, after making a stupid mistake, I didn't upload the correct /languages/english/html_includes/cws files.

I am now getting the main page text but its not being formatted by the css, and is all starting from the left border of the background image.

I get a few produces listed on the screen, but no images are coming up for them, and still no side box.

Hi Everybody!

Ok, so I think I'm having a problem similar to this one that has stumped me. I've installed zencart + multisite module on one of my domains before, and everything went smoothly.

Now I'm trying to install it on a different domain, with a different hosting company (godaddy), and I've run into a peculiar error. I've got the multisite part up and running, but whenever I try and go to a store the css isn't being loaded. I've confirmed that it happens in Firefox, Safari, and IE.

When I check the error logs in Firefox, I see:

<path>/includes/templates/template_default/css/stylesheet.css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".

Which has never happened to me before. I also found out that if I comment out the line

include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php');

in includes/configure.php everything seems to work fine (except the multisite aspect of course).

I've gone through this thread looking for information, and the above post was the closest thing I could find. So I figured I toss the question out to people smarter than I:

anyone know what is going on here?

[GGVL]

Can this contribution be used to provide one centralised payment / checkout system for multiple stores?

For example ...
If you have say 5 stores all selling completely different products could you have?
a) just one of them doing the checkout / payment for all the stores, or
b) a new emtpy store acting purely as the checkout / payment system for all the stores?

The object being to to use one merchant (card processing) account for all the stores instead of having to have one per store.
All the stores are part of the same limited company just in different niches.

Many thanks for any feedback.

[ethical]

Thanks for the mod however i can't get it to work

I get this error:

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/bin/gzip') in /home/public_html/store/index.php on line 43

now i seem to have narrowed it down to one of the init_templates file as when i removed them, the site started working again.

the ones here: includes\init_includes\overrides\init_templates

can someone please guide me as to a solution as the file DOES exist in my template folder /includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/common

Thanks

John

[Greyhound]

I have fresh install of Zen Cart and installed the latest version of MultiSite Module on my local computer as a development version. To make sure I like it and it works as needed. I need the web addresses of the stores not to be different domain names altogether but the same domain names with a /NewName. Is this possible. Example below

instead of www.cars.com I want www.stores.biz/cars www.stores.biz/shirts www.stores.biz/funny. Is this possible if so how.

I am also getting the the domain localhost does not exist when I go to the following link http://localhost/ZenCart/.

Any help would be appreciated.