I am using JS_Inspirion as the theme for the Master and all of the slaves and just changing the parameters for the different sites. I have a separate 'Templates' folder in each of the sites and have the sites directing to the proper installation of the template.

The problem that I am having is that I cannot update the template on the slave sites within the Joomla! admin area. I believe I have something wrong with the FTP. When I download and update the param.ini file the changes are there so I know I have the site directed to the proper template.

It works on the Master Site. What I need is to know how to set up my FTP user for the slave site.

Here is the location of both

Master is located at: home/public_html/
Slave is located at: home/public_html/multisites/CC_catering

Thank You

I believe I am having the same problem. All of my themes have been copied into their own templates directory. I can change the actual theme default, but I cannot change the templates colors or other parameters. Please advise. Thanks

JS_Inspirion is by Joomlashack? sounds like a similar prob to those I'm facing with Rockettheme templates:

the template manager saves changes to params_slaveX.ini, created by JMS when copying the templates folder, while its the data in params.ini that are being read.

I suppose you could add all the templates to the master's template folder, share that folder, and then assign the appropriate template to the respective subsite
eg:
template 'master' is being assigned as default to master site
template 'slave1' is being assigned as default to slave1 subsite
etc

It is a JoomlaShack Template.

It is reading the "params_slaveX.ini" file.
The error messages"

JFTP::write: Bad response

failed to open file public_html/multisites/CC_catering/templates/js_inspirion/params_CC_catering.ini for writing.

Your suggestion of sharing the Master Template folder sounds like a possibility. I'd rather do it with it's own folder if possible.

We got it to work by sharing the Master templates folder. We are using multiple instances of the same template and just changing the colors and layout. So... we renamed the folder and made changes to the index.php and the xml file that held the template information and then reloaded the files. We also had to load the template into the slave templates directory but we are making changes to the template from within the master administrator area. There's probably a slicker way to do this, but this one works.

The problem was from using the same template, with the same name in different sites. The program was a little confused as to which folder to open.

Thanks chrissy6930, for the suggestion.