Hi.

I've set up multisite on my virtuemart store and have created 6 slave sites, all selling the same products but using different templates to advertise to various niche markets.
So far so good, however I do have one major problem holding me back.

If I point the subdomains to the root of the master site its fine but if i point them to the folders of the slave sites it messes up the site. The reason this is a problem is because I have different product images for each site.

Is there a way to set a different product image folder for each slave site?

If not is there a reason why the site only works when pointing to the root?
As far as I know my server can handle symbolic links so dunno what it could be...

Thanks

The product images are stored by VirtueMart in the "/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image" directory.
As the "/components" directory is a Symbolic Link on the master, this mean that the VM shop images are shared.

Unfortunatelly, VM does not propose back-end configuration to modify this path.
Perhaps (never experimented) you could have a look in the /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/virtuemart.{site_id}.cfg.php and try modifying the IMAGEURL and IMAGEPATH to change the path.

Becarefull when you update this configuration manually. The modification will be lost each time you change the VM "configuration" from the back-end.

Hi.

I've just checked Virtuemart, however there is no file virtuemart.{site_id}.cfg.php but just virtuemart.cfg.php. What do I need to do so Multisite creates a config file for each one?

Thanks.

Just go in VM configuration menu and save it.

It is created when you save the configuration in a slave site. When you never save any specific slave site VM configuration, you are using the master one.