Hi all,

I am new to Multi Sites and am having difficulties setting up the right structure to achieve what I need.

I am building 4 websites, lets call them abc-group, abc-site1, abc-site and abc-site3.

All of the websites are public and each will have some content which is unique and some which is shared.

All of the websites have user registration, and I need a registered user on 1 site to be able to log in on any of the others.

The urls for the websites will be:

www.abc-group.com
www.abc-group.com/abc-site1
www.abc-group.com/abc-site2
www.abc-group.com/abc-site3

I have done this as I understand it is only possible to share users on the same domain (sub-domains or sub-directories), so I have chosen sub-directories.

So far I have got a full Joomla installation for abc-group. I have installed several extensions, including Multi Sites and have attempted to create a Template in order to correctly create abc-site1, abc-site2 and abc-site3.

The only Template parameters I have used are as follows:

List of domain names - www.abc-group.com/{site_id}
Template site - <master site>
New DB Name - abcgroup_{site_id}
Deployment folder - /home/abcgroup/public_html/{site_id}

I have left most of 'Folders and files' as they were, and have chosen "Share the Joomla Users" on the 'Sharing' tab.

When I create a new website, using a site id of "abc-site1" and using the sharing template as described above, nothing seems to be shared. A new directory is created at /home/abcgroup/public_html/abc-site1, but within this are new directories for all parts of the Joomla installation (administrator down to xmlrpc) where I thought they would just be linked to, and users don't seem to be shared at all.

What am I doing wrong here?

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Tom

You have decided to create specific DB for each slave site and requested to share the MySQL table between the DBs.
The key element is to check that you have the permission to share the MySQL tables between different DBs.

You also have to check that you are effectivelly using MySQL 5.x.

If you successfully created the slave site, check that you have the MySQL table shared.
If not, verify the MySQL user privileges.

The sharing of the extension is performed in MySQL and you have to check the JMS Tool / table tabs to verify that you have effectivelly shared the MySQL tables.