Hi,

Please help.. I tried creating a slave site from a template 3 or 4 times. It comes back with no errors and no new site.. please advise..

The template just uses the master site, specifys the files and sharing for AEC and Jomsocial.

For the site I specified the ID, the domain name already made as an alias in Plesk, selected the template created above, specifed the deployment folder.. already created, specified the the DB to put data into (also already created)..what am I missing?? How do I get it to tell me the error?

When creating a slave site, you first have to check that you also have configured your hosting server correctly.
To help you check your hosting server (plesk) configuration, you can start install the hello world to check that you can call it.

Follow the tutorial step by step.

Which platform (unix, windows, ...) ?
Does the symbolic link is allowed ?
Which kind of server (Apache, IIS, ...) ?

If unix + apache + symbolic link allowed, you can start create your first slave site using the tutorial step 9, or CP-04.
www.jms2win.com/tutorial#jms12x-9
www.jms2win.com/tutorial#jms12x-CP-04
Site ID = slave1
Domain = {site_url}/multisites/{site_id}
Deploy dir = {site_dir}

This should create plenty of symbolic link and check that JMS is working with Symbolic Link.
The advantage of this config is that it does not require to setup your hosting server (plesk) as this use your master domain name.

Start to create a basic slave site and apply the tutorial as they are presented.
This will help you understand the concept of JMS

Once you will be able to apply the JMS tutorial sample, you could experiment your plesk configuration.

So before trying to create a JMS templates and replicate a website, try to create a fresh slave site to check your environement.
In your description it seems that you are not able to create a fresh slave site as presented in the tutorial 9 or CP-04.

Review the tutorial
www.jms2win.com/tutorial

I am experiencing similar problem.
When creating site from Front-End (directly from ) site is not created no error is displayed
Also for some reason in Front-End button New redirect to front page (also without error)

Using linux, symlink is allowed, apache.

If i play with system (like reinstall it from scratch) it may start working and after some time (or immideatly after creating one site ) it doesn't

When i try to create site from Back-end, site is created but without symlinks - just those files

cache
config_multisites.php
configuration.php
index.php
index2.php
logs
templates
tmp

and it doesn't work of course

So you have to check the permission if the symbolic links are not created.
Perhaps you have error message reported on your server log.
Check also the tools you are using to check that symbolic link is present or not because some hosting server "file manager" tool does not display the symbolic links or display them as real directory that is wrong.

If it works during a short period of time after the installation of joomla and JMS, perhaps you have a CRON or similar task that check the permission of your directories or files and modify them that would cause the problem of permission after a period of time.

ok i've figured this.
symlinks are not created because template was created when symlinks were disabled
and symlinks were disabled becouse joomla config had relative path to tmp/logs and jms2win symlinks checking only works correctly with absolute path

"NEW" button and creating site in Front-End doesn't work becouse javascript of Save button is missing return false (submitbutton('saveSlave' ) ;return(false) ; ) (this is rather joomla bug but who cares)

The submitbutton function is a present in the /includes/js/joomla.javascript.js that is normally added by your templates.

To test if this is your specific templates you can try to use the default joomla rhuk_milkyway template.
Perhaps this will help you confirm that the problem is located in the template.

Perhaps your templates does not have <jdoc:include type="head" /> that allow to include the additional head informations.