I have not yet read all your post but when the replication of a website you must be sure that you have spelled correctly the domain name.

When JMS does not find the name in the list of domain, it display the master website (the default one).
You have to check that you have spelled correctly the name.
It is frequent that somebody enter a sub-domain.domain.com and after it enter in the browser WWW.sub-domain.domain.com
If you do not enter both with WWW and without WWW, you may think that you have correctly enter the good name and in fact you see the master website.

OH MY GOSH.

is that all it is,

I just erased all my stuff and am starting over again.

That could be it.

Holy CRAPPERS!

The replication of the DB content is not the related to the user that you are using for the operation.
Only the MySQL user must have enough privileges and you want to share extensions.
See the tutorial step 16 that present the concept and also generic keyword to apply the procedure on any website (at least to teach you).


There are 3 methods to install extensions.
1) Old method consist in re-installing the extension in the slave site as you do it when you install an extension in the master. The requirement is that the extension must already been installed on the master website.
2) Replicate a website where the extension is already installed
3) Use the JMS tool that allow you install/share/uninsitall extension and also sometime give you the possibility to propagate the installation to a set of children slave site.
This require that the extension are defined in the JMS tools and we are updating this list regularly to add new extension.
See the current list in www.jms2win.com/component/content/article/135

YES with JMS you can also define "JMS templates" to propose a service to create website from the front-end. There is basic sample in the tutorial step 13.
www.jms2win.com/tutorial

yes, this seems to be the issue, interesting that the public side works ok without it. www. but the admin does not.. ha.

tricky tricky

what a pain that was to.. THANKS for answering the posts!! Thank you thank you thank you!!

The most frequent reason is that you have not spelled correctly the domain name in your slave and therefore it is not detected by JMS because it does not match the one that you enter in your browser.

Most frequent reason is that you enter a domain without a WWW in JMS and after in your browser you add the WWW in from of the domain or in from of the sub-domain.

It is generally recommended to define both WWW.domain.com and domain.com to accept both spelling.

If you are using special character in a URL like in germany "www.müchen.com", you must enter the IDNs conversion

When in JMS Template you select "share the whole site", this does NOT copy or replicate the website.
In fact this use the same table prefix than the website the you have selected to share totally.
This just give you the opportunity to use some specific directoy in the deploy folder.


By default the JMS template / "Folder and files" panel propose you to create symbolic link on all the directories and files present in your master website.
So this is normal that when you create a link on all the existing slave site that you create a huge loop.
This is also true when you create a link on the "multisites" directory.

You can control the files and folder symbolic link creation with the "JMS template" / "Folder and files" panel.

When you duplicate the master (and you have to check that this is really a duplicate - using different DB Connection or table prefix) as you duplicate evrything, this of course also repllicate the "JMS" extension.
It is not recommended to install JMS on a slave site