Hy all,
I've tryed to install a www.slave1.com site on my existing master Joomla site (www.master.com). My master site is deployed in let's say :

/homez.123/master/www/master


My slave folder is deployed in

/homez.999/slave1/www

Since my domain operator doesn't allow me to change the folder of my slave1 site I've tried to use symolic link feature of JMS. So, i've installed my slave1 site in

/homez.123/master/www/slave1

and then I've redirected www.slave1.com to www.master.com/slave1.


So, everything worked fine since I've got all my symbolic links into
/homez.123/master/www/slave1 such:
administartor , etc

Note that "installation" is not a simbolic link, but a real folder that contains symbolic links.

When I'm going to www.slave1.com i've got the following error message:

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

Note also that my master has jos_ prefix DB table and that the folder

/homez.123/master/www/master/multisites/slave1 doesn't exist and I don't know why.

Can u plz tell me how to solve this issue, It's been for two days that I'm searching to solve this issue.
Thanks.

If you want to use symbolic link, you have to deploy the slave site into the
/homez.999/slave1/www
and not in the
/homez.123/master/www/master/slave1
as it seems be defined with the URL that you have tried redirect.

In addition, you can not use redirection as the redirection change the domain name and therefore it is lost when it reach the website and JMS.


As you can read plenty of times in the forum, the "No configuration file and no installation" mean that both the "configuration.php" and the "/installation" directory does not exists in the slave site deploy directory
In your example in
/homez.999/slave1/www

I've tried this and it doesn't work.
I've got the jms message:
folder : /homez.999/slave1/www doesn't exist

Is this normal?


I thought that choosing the slave1 root folder other than the master one

i.e. (slave1 --->/homez.999, knowing that the root master is /homez.123) is not supported ...that's why i've tried to put my slave1 in a sub-folder of the root master!

First possibility, you have provided the wrong path and the directory does not exists.

Second possibility is that you don't have permission to access this directory.

Third possibility, you have an open_basedir that restrict the access to the directories.

So verify again until you are able to have the correct path and the correct permission.