My master website I am wanting to copy is set up like so:

/hsphere/local/home/{user}/subdomain.website.com/

and I've created 2 slaves subdomains that I want to copy to which are automatically separated in to folders like so:

/hsphere/local/home/{user}/subdomain2.website.com/
/hsphere/local/home/{user}/subdomain3.website.com/

I've installed Multi Sites on my master Joomla 1.5.x installation with no problems apart from increasing the PHP execution time.

Creating the template is no worries and I include the FTP details in the template for ease of copying:



I go to create my new site



and when I hit save, I get a whole bunch of JFTP errors:



The symbolic links are created, however they are under the httpd/httpd user/group instead of my FTP {user}/{group} which I have set up in the FTP section of the template.



I know the FTP settings are correct because when I test in my FTP client (from the above screenshot) they work no worries. Has anyone else had issues with the FTP not working and/or able to assist?

First, the symbolic link are not created using the FTP as this is not a functionality available in the FTP protocol.
So the Symbolic Link are directly created without FTP and is using the deployed folder to know where to deploy them.

Concerning the FTP parameters, it is not easy to use.
When creating a slave site, you always have to give the path relative your your master website and not give directly the slave site path.
ie.
If your master is located in
/hsphere/local/home/user/subdomain.website.com/
and that you want to deploy a slave site into the directory
/hsphere/local/home/user/subdomain2.website.com/

then you have to enter something like
/hsphere/local/home/user/subdomain.website.com/../subdomain2.website.com/
To go up one directory from the master and after provide the new path.

Aaah right, got you. I'll have a go and see what I get

Okay so I've changed the deploy path and had success:

/hsphere/local/home/{user}/subdomain.website.com/../subdomain2.website.com

and now when I visit the URL I get the following message:

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

Also all of the symlinks are broken ... even though the path to the master site is correct.



All of my folders are set to symbolic links apart from cache, logs, installation and tmp as well as those two index.php and index2.php special redirects as default values

The message tell you that the folder does not exists.
So verify that the FTP root path is OK.

When you are using an FTP tool, login with the info that you provide to JMS for the FTP layer configuration and try doing manually the up directory, down directory.
Perhpas your FTP does not have the permission to do the operation because you are outside the autorised directory.

As the symbolic link is allowed, I don't know why you are using the FTP Layer.
Perhaps you could directly deploy the slave site into a directory without using the joomla FTP layer.