Following up from my previous post, I've been performing further testing today.

I've resolved the issues described above when I use the directory and site URL structure:

/chroot/home/myaccount/mydomain.com/html/master
/chroot/home/myaccount/mydomain.com/html/master/slave1

www.mydomain.com/master/slave1

So it is clear now that this works if the slave sites are a sub-directory of the master directory on the server.

I think that this will cause a security issue because the master directory is exposed.

Even if I install the master into the /html/ directory it will still be exposed as a potential directory.

Can you think of the best solution for me?

Why do you think I'm not able to install the slave into a completely different directory from the master? My host has said that they have applied the standard UNIX security settings to my server. What should I ask them to change for me?

Thanks and regards.

This issue described above has now been resolved.

The problem was a setting in my domain manager whereby I had created a subdomain for my master site in such a way that it was excluding the other directories. I simply removed the domain setting in my control panel and rather created a subdirectory via FTP.

The last issue pending now is that I've deleted all my slave sites and templates so that I can start again fresh. Since I've done this when I try create a new template I no longer have the option to set a 'deploy directory'.

Also when I click on 'Folders and files' in the template I only have the options to ignore, copy, unzip or mkdir.

I know if I re-install JMS Multisites it will resolve the problem but I still want to know why this is happenening incase it appears in a production environment.

Thanks and regards.

I don't know lighspeed.

All I can imagine is that you are using the joomla FTP layer enabled but you say this is not the case.
So I don't know what setup to have that.
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