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JohnGribben

Posted: 27 April 2012 02:18 PM

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We are unable to output any channel data in an MSM subsite.

Here is what we have:

EE 2.3.1 20111017
MSM 2.1.1 Build: 20111011

We are using:

Structure 3.1.3
Adman 1.0.3
DataGrab 1.7.0
Freeform 3.1.1
Wyvern 1.2.7.2

I think we have the preferences set correctly. The URL to the root directory is set correctly in General Preferences. We’ve used the same setup before with no problems.

Thanks,
John

Dan Decker

Posted: 30 April 2012 12:07 PM

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Hi John,

That is certainly undesirable!

Are you running the second site on a sub-domain or its own full domain?

Is the channel available in the second site’s Control Panel? Can you post an example of the template that is giving you trouble?

Have you checked the MSM values for the second site’s index.php and admin.php?

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JohnGribben

Posted: 30 April 2012 01:15 PM

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply!

We are running the site on a subdomain.

The channel is available in the control panel of the second site. Here is a test page:

http://beingwe.constitutioncenter.org/test

Here is the template for the above:

<p>
{exp:channel:entries url_title="asa-baran-18" site="being_we" dynamic="off"}
{if no_results} nada{/if}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}
</p>

<p>
{exp:structure:nav start_from="/" show_depth="999" css_class="site-map" site="being_we"}{/exp:structure:nav}
</p>

<p>
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" limit="10" site="being_we"}

<div class="list row">

    <h3><a href="{page_url}">{title}</a></h3>
    <p class="date">{news-post-date format="%F %d, %Y"}</p>
    <p>{news-short-text} <a href="{page_url}">Read More ></a></p>

</div>

{/exp:channel:entries} 

As you can see we tried a few ways to display the channel content.

I think we have the index and admin files configured correctly. The name of the second site is “being_we.”

Each contains:

Thanks again!
John

Dan Decker

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:53 AM

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Hey John,

Since MSM can be a bit tricky, I keep a sample handy for the main files affected:

//CONFIG// - typical config.php
$config['cp_url'] = "http://engine.dev/admin.php";
$config['doc_url'] = "http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/";
$config['is_system_on'] = "y";
$config['allow_extensions'] = "y";
$config['site_label'] = "Test 23";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$config['multiple_sites_enabled'] = "y";

index.php and admin.php site 1
NO CHANGES

index.php and admin.php site 2
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://msm.dev/admin.php';
$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://msm.dev';

--- admin ---
$system_path = '../system';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'msm_test';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://msm.dev/admin.php'; 

Now, that’s a typical set up, with the second site as a sub-domain and its folder in the web-root of the main site.

I do notice that your first channel entries tag isn’t using a channel= parameter, but the second loop should be pulling in entries regardless. I would expect the url_title parameter in the first loop to pull in an entry without the channel parameter too.

But, can you add that in for a test?

If that doesn’t square this, we might need to get a closer look.

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JohnGribben

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:07 PM

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve checked your sample config setup against ours, and I couldn’t see any major differences:

I did notice that the MSM configuration had not been uncommented in the master admin file. I removed the comments and applied the values above. This didn’t fix the problem though.

One other thing:

Now, that’s a typical set up, with the second site as a sub-domain and its folder in the web-root of the main site.

The second site in our case does not reside in the web-root of the main site. It’s in a sibling httdocs directory. I don’t know why it was set up this way. I think it has worked in the past.

Thanks,
John

Dan Decker

Posted: 02 May 2012 03:40 PM

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Hi John,

Try these changes for me please:

index.php SITE 2

$system_path = '../httpdocs/avalon';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'being_we';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://beingwe.constitutioncenter.org/avalon.php';/*is this renamed admin.php?*/
$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://beingwe.constitutioncenter.org';

admin.php (avalon.php) SITE 2

//admin//
$system_path = '../httpdocs/avalon';
/*---------------------------*/
$assign_to_config['site_name']  = 'being_we';
$assign_to_config['cp_url'] = 'http://beingwe.constitutioncenter.org/avalon.php'; 