After installing and setting up my first slave site (a copy of the master, using the same installation, but a different database prefix), I'm now at an interesting question:

"how do I edit the slave?"

Since the administrator link is an alias to the master administration, I find no way to update anything within the slave site. Am I missing something, or am I trying to use JMS for what it was not intended for? I want to have the slave site use the same installation, but be a different site. Content, menus, template (theme), etc.


ross

If you have replicated the website, you can login as admniistrator of the slave site and manage it directly.

If you have replicated (an not shared anything), this mean that the slave site is independent and just have an initial copy of your master website.

See the video in tutorial.
They will show you how to create fresh slave site, and also replicate one.

Once you will have a slave site, you manage it from it independent back-end (/administrator).

the reason I eventually copied my master site, is because when I saved my slave site, then updated DNS information, I did not have the joomla installation step. it was merely a directory listing with "cache/" and "config_multisites.php" in it.

I feel like the PDF user manual and the demos are causing me to miss a step.

If you are using a domain or a sub-domain that have their own directory, then you have to deploy the slave site in this particular directory or you may have a list of files present (without the index.php file).

To know how configure a slave site that also use a JMS template for the replication, maybe the tutorial CP-04 will help you
www.jms2win.com/tutorial#jms12x-CP-04

You can also have a look to the other CP-xx video that perhaps will help you see the relationship between the hosting configuration and the JMS slave site directory.

Thanks for all the help, I'm really enjoying working with JMS.

I now get an error following the tutorials. When I try to make a new slave site, then view the slave site to start the slave installation, I get the error:

"No configuration file found and no installation code available. Exiting..."

the directory has all files except for configuration.php, which seems odd. I'm wondering if something happened during my faulty installation of JMS, or if this is a standard error.

My settings and 'check patches' are all green.


Ross

Dear Riss,

Joomla (not JMS), when it starts, it first check if it found a "configuration.php" files that may not be present when you want to create a fresh joomla website.
When joomla detect that it has no configuration.php file, it tries to search for the "installation" directory to allow its creation.
If it does not find any configuration.php file and no installation directory, this is the messsage that is reported.

So you have correctly identified that "configuration.php" does not exists but it seeems that "installation" directory is also missing.
Check that you have correctly installed the JMS patches that must restore the "installation" directory.
If you have used the tutorial step 9 with a slave site deployed in a specific directory, then you must check that you have the "installation" directory present in the deployed folder.
If the "installation" directory is present, you must check that you have the access to the directory.
You can add the "installation/index.php" in the URL of the slave site to check that you can access it. (Probably NO).

So check that you have access to the slave site installation directory to allow joomla build the "congfiguration.php" file.