If you've read the thread to this point hoping to find information about how to add JMS into your Joomla environment on godaddy then this will be of interest.

You may be thinking, hmmm, sounds like jmsnoob is making progress finally.

Uh, well, I guess so. I am deep into figuring out how to screw up !

When we last left our ignorant hero he was thinking that he needed to define his primary site as the first one in the JMS Site Manager based on his layperson's interpretation of the nearly unintelligible guidance about the JMS "concepts". Which he did and it immediately started the Joomla installation - which by the way - you can NOT get out of once it starts.

Anyway, to make a long story short, after looking up all of the sql database stuff for his existing installation from the godaddy hosting interface and putting it into the fields for this first site because, after all, that first site exists already; I now have a fresh installation of Joomla WITHOUT JMS Multi Sites or, by the way, my original data.

Aaaah, so this is the "Fresh Slave Site" option. Hmmm, guess I want one of the others.



So. I am back at square one. But that is ok because I am going to figure this out if it kills me. It looks like I will be uninstalling Joomla completely and then putting it back in with the cpanel and then I will re-read ALL of the tutorials and the FAQs and the videos and the manuals and try to piece them together so I can somehow find the "kernel of insight" that simply has to be in there.

By the way, this extension gets good reviews on Joomla and everyone says nice things about the support. I also appreciate the timely responses, no matter how cryptic and expect to have it installed someday for all of us business people who are desperate to take advantage of the new tools that really smart people have developed. I hope that someday, those smart people will find straightforward ways to explain "how to do stuff" to us dumb people.

Again, so sorry for my ignorance.

ttfn

OH NO !

I was writing about my troubles at the exact same time you were putting in the "keeping it short" instructions about a slave site.

If you are still there, I have to ask ( yes I will look at the tutorials ) whether the original installation of Joomla performed from the godaddy cpanel needs to be defined (first or otherwise) in the JMS Site Manager list.

Sincerely,

Your ignorant customer

I hope in coming weeks be able to review the website and propose new video with better quality.
But I can not do everything at the same time.
With the new JMS 1.2.x, I continue to improve its quality that for me is the most important thing.
I am not a specialist in video and I can tell you that I am organizing myself to be able provide better material perhaps still this month or in august.

I would like also produce new video to explain the new functionalities present in JMS 1.2.x.

Sorry if I can not do everything as fast as you could perhaps expect.
My first objective was to provide the functionalities the mostly requested.
When I will be in a stable version I will probably have more time to review the doc to simplify the job of the beginners.
Create the doc and the tutorial is not so easy due to the wide range of possibiilties and the particularities in realation with the environment (windows, unix, ...).
For the moment, the tutorial is proposed as a roadmap where you go from step to step depending on the result of the previous steps.
I have already try imagine a wizard in JMS but this is a nightmare and will require a lot of time in development.

All the answer that I have provide to you till now have consisted to apply the step 0 to step 9.
When you will be familliar with basic website creation you could try continue the other step and in particular the step 13 that present the usage of the JMS template and how to create website from the front-end.