Ok,

I have checked and watched the videos. Now I get the following:

www.gottchyagear.com/multisites/battlecreekcentral/hello.php - NO
www.gottchyagear.com/multisites/battlecreekcentral/hello.txt - Yes

and so on for each slave site - total is (11).

I just looked at the FTP of our server and I noticed the following is this right???

www.gottchyagear.com/multisites/battlecreekcentral

and I look in the root of that folder I see Multisites folder again and all of the slave sites

are in there again and again....I this suppose to be there in the slave sites like that?

I'm attaching a screen shot to show you.

Looking forward to your reply!

Thanks,

Ray Salyer
Gottch-Ya! Graphix

see attached file.

This is normal to have the /multiistes directory into a slave site as remember that each slave site must have the same directory structure than the master website.
Review the tutorial step 0 and that present the concept and at the end explain the Symbolic Link concept very quickly.
In your screenshot the Symbolic Link are displayed with a L attribute and your FTP tool also show the real path.

If you can not execute files into the /multisites/xxxx directory, this is problably the origin of your problem.
Try to change the permission of this directory (ie chmod 777) to check this hypothesis.
Perhaps you will also have to change the permission of the multisites directory.

Use the hello.php file to test your Hosting Server configuration and permissions.
When you will be able to execute the "hello.php" file in this /multisites/xxx directory then you can retry without the "index.php" to see if it start the slave site.

ok I will give this a try.

Ok, I have figured out how to make the master link. This is what I have.

The creation of the 'master_link' directory is successfull
You have now a link [/home/gottchya/public_html/multisites/harpercreek/master_link] -> [/home/gottchya/public_html]
You can try to use the URL like www.slave.com/master_link/hello.txt

Do I need to do this for each slave site? When I go to the url:
www.gottchyagear.com/multisite/harpercreek/hello.php - No
I get a 404 - Not Found

Ok,

I went into the multisite directory and into the a slave site: harpercreek and looked at the index.php

This is what was in the header of that file:

<?php
// Don't use a Symbolic Link because that crash the website.
// Just include the original file to redirect the processing.
//include( '/home/gottchya/public_html/index.php');
// Evaluate the original include file to redirect to keep the __FILE__ value.
$filename = '/home/gottchya/public_html/index.php';
$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
$contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($handle);
unset($handle);
eval("?>" . $contents);

No so sure that I understand this...Why would it say: Don't use a Symbolic Link because that crash the website?

I have watched the videos and read the manual as well as changed file permissions. Still not working..!!

I did check as well that there is still a installation folder in the root.

Also, we have just had some custom coding to our website, now would that make a difference? It was for VirtueMart.

Let me know,

Ray Salyer
Gottch-Ya! Graphix, USA