Managed it to get all the green lights!

To finalize a slave site, could you provide some screenshots how a slavesite should be installed properly? This because we can't get the image and tamplate folders right. A good example should most certainly help.

Many thanks!

to have images, media and template folder separated, you have to use the default values present in JMS.

Deploy folder = {site_dir}
Media folder = /images
Images folder = /images/stories
Template folder = templates.

Remark this is only true when you create the slave site.
If you had already create the slave site, JMS will not change the exsting directory that you may have created.
Perhaps you would have to delete the slave site and recreate it.

Check the folders in your deploy directory to verify they are real directory instead of Symbolic Links.

We have used the default values in JMS.

However regarding the images folder, it now points at:

/home/wwworg/pendragon/html/images/stories

And it sould point at:

/home/wwworg/pendragon/html/multisites/Lacoste/images/stories

Pendragon is the main domain on our server. Lacoste is the slave1 website.
We use the structure with all seperated databases and seperated images, images/stories and template files...

Looking forward for your help in our final steps, thanks in advance for all the great support!

Besides, why is the JMS back-end sooooo slow?

First, concerning your images and media path, you have to check the you have configured correctly your domain or sub-domain.
When you deploy a slave site into a specific directory, you must use also this directory in your hosting server configuration.

If for example you have defined in JMS a slave site Lacoste that you have deployed in the directory /home/wwworg/pendragon/html/multisites/Lacoste
THEN
you have to define in your hosting server the SAME path for your domain lacoste.

If in your hosting server, you have defined ie. www.lacoste.com with the path /home/wwworg/pendragon/html, this is normal that the image and media folder that is a relative path to the current directory will be wrong.
It will use /home/wwworg/pendragon/html (current root) /images
and the result is not the one that you expect.

I remember you that the image and media folder are a standard Joomla feature (not JMS) that can be configured using the Joomla / Global configuration.
JMS just provide the possibility to fill this value when you create the slave site.
So check the value in the standard Global Configuration.

Concerning the back-end very slow, this may be due to your firewall that does not allow JMS send the modification of Joomla version to our server and attach this modification to your product number.

Sorry for the late reply, could you indicate what IP to open for your server? We will update the firewall.

Regarding the image map, it now takes thes right image path and uploads perfectly to lacoste/images/stories.

However components like mod_banner and phoca gallery still point to the master website. How to change this? The features of JMS show that both components should be compatible with JMS. We are using the latest version of JMS now, version 1.2.

Thanks for your support! great sofar!