Hye there..

i'm trying to use this wonderful plugin..
how ever, in the video tutorial, after creates a slave site, and go to the site, it is automaticly prompts the joomla installation page.

but when i did on my site, it only create the site, but no installation. i tried putting a joomla folder in there and installs..but at the end, the installation asks me to delete the installation folder. i think the installation is needed for the future new sites installations right?

i'm doin this on a localhost 1st, then i'll akeeba-backup it and install it on the live site.

please advice..thank you!

p/s i also notice that when i put the joomla folder and installs, there's no symbolic linking..or is it like that for localhosts?

First verify that you have correctly installed the patches.

If you have a joomla prompt that ask you to delete the "installation" directory, this probably mean that you are not have JMS installed correctly or that you have installed a joomla in the slave site directory.

Normally, you should have Symbolic Link created in the "deployed folder" and you don't have to install anything.
You should let JMS install the things for you.

Concerning Akeeba backup we never succeeded to use this extension to perform a correct backup / restore. It always failed.

See our FAQ for the manual backup / restore procedure.
www.jms2win.com/en/faq/faq-joomla-multi-sites#cat-268

Thank you for replying..

when i tried updating the patches.. it always failed

Error during installation of the file "libraries/joomla/session/session.php"

One or more backup file is missing. The original file(s) can not be restored.


ok..my issue is this..

i'm installing this component inside a master site.. let's say www.master.com
i want to install a slave site that becomes the master of future slave site..
so i'm using
Site id : masterslave
List of domain names :{site_url}/multisites/{site_id}
deploy directory : {site_dir}


that should make a directory of www.master.com/multisites/masterslave right?

the thing is, when i open the url, it shows
"No configuration file found and no installation code available. Exiting..."
wasn't it suppose to get me to the joomla installation page? for me to install joomla with another database?

You have first to install the patches correctly.
As long as the JMS patches are not installed, you don't have JMS working and try creating slave site will always fail.

Perhaps you have a problem of permission to update the session.php file.
Which version of joomla do you use ?

I have the same problem. I installed the latest version of the component on an existing Joomla site (Joomla 1.5.25), then applied the patches - which seems to be correctly added - and registered the component, which is also gone fine. In the component I see that registration went okay, have latest version of everything, component is registered, Symlinks are working.
Then created a subdomain, called handbook, and pointed the subdomain to the correct directory. Checked and double-checked, domain is added properly an points where should.
Then added the new slave site, as described in the tutorial.
All went okay. And when I visited the new site - surprise- nothing happened.
I searched your forum, I watched the videos, checked and double-checked (BTW, I am the maintainer of joomla-tips.org, so I know a couple of things about Joomla, hosting and stuff like that) but no chances.
Here's the slave site: handbook.ricadvst.leftbrain.net
and here's the master: ricadvst.leftbrain.net
I even installed the hello.php in the slave, just to be sure.
Any help would be appreciated, this is a part of a big project, and I'm on a tight schedule!

Start to put a "hello.php" in the subdomain to verify that the subdomain is correctly accessible.

I suspect that you have a Fatal Error when diplaying the page.
Check if you have a "error_log" file in the subdomain directory and if yes, check if you have a fatal error.

Perhaps you can not access a file or folder or that you have a problem of permission or simply that you hosting does not follow the symbolic links.
Check also if you have a ".htaccess" that would generate an error.