I still got a blank site....

I use the _ss_environment.php Method. Without the BASE_DIR hack i got an infinite redirect...

My .htaccess

I know that this has been done to death and that everybody else seems to have gotten it working with minimal fuss, but I am stuck.

I'm on a shared hosting account with cpanel using linux, apache 2.2.15, php 5.2.13, and SS2.4.2.

I thought I followed banal's very easy, straight forward instructions but can't seem to get past the errors. My questions are 1.) Am I interpreting the instructions correctly?, 2.) Did I code the symlink correctly?

The Directions:
Step 1: Place the following files in their own directory (after reading various comments I'm not sure if this is supposed to be above the root or in the root, but I tried both)
  +- sapphire
   +- cms
   +- googlesitemaps
   +- dataobject_manager
   +- swfupload
   +- _ss_environment.php

Step 2: Place a copy of assets and mysite in each domain's directory

Step 3: Add a symlink to sapphire, cms, googlesitemaps, dataobject_manager and swfupload in each domain's directory.

Step 4: Update the config file for each domain to include require_once('conf/ConfigureFromEnv.php');

Did I at least get this part right?

symlink

Putting the core files (sapphire, cms, etc...) in their own folder created a 500 error because it couldn't find main.php in sapphire. I assumed that this meant that I did something wrong with the symlink, but I don't see how or what I did wrong. All I had to do was replace the username,sourcedirectory and where it needs to link to with my own information and save it as a php file.

<?php symlink('/home/honeybunny/public_html/ss242/sapphire', '/home/honeybunny/public_html/subdomain.com/sapphire');?>

but this is the error message I got:

Warning: symlink() [function.symlink]: File exists in /home/honeybunny/public_html/subdomain.com/sapphire/getfiles.php on line 2

What am I doing wrong? I thought that it was supposed to be symlink('where the file is', 'where you are trying to link it'); I tried placing the paths the other way with the "where I am linking to" part first and the "where the file is" part second, but still got the same error.

I had considered that the problem may be related to permissions, but I wasn't sure which files needed to be 777. I tried making the subdomain's files 777 but got 500 errors, so I reset them and tried changing the main sapphire, cms, googlesitemaps, etc... files to 777 which also resulted in 500 errors so I returned them to their original permissions.

Did I just set everything up wrong? Is my code wrong? I'm on week three of my on again/off again earache and it's really hard to think straight. Any insight into where I am going wrong is greatly appreciated.

HB

Hi dompie!

I didn't do anything with htaccess. The htaccess file in the root contains:

### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

I emptied everything so that I could start from scratch again, but I think the htaccess file in the subdirectory just had

RewriteEngine off

I left it like that because that was what I had to do to get the sub-domain to be recognized as an active domain. (Meaning after it was set up in cpanel, I had to add an htaccess file with RewriteEngine off before I could open a browser and go to www.sub-domain.com and have the file open. This was before I even started playing with using ss to manage the sub-domain.)

As for the index file I used the standard file that loads with ss, One index file was in the root for the primary domain and another was in the sub-domain's folder. No changes were made.

HB

Thank you so much dompie!
I've more or less got everything working now. Once you said that everything else seemed okay I put everything back the way it was and focused on the symlink.

I started out with:
<?php symlink('/home/honeybunny/public_html/ss242/sapphire', '/home/honeybunny/public_html/subdomain.com/sapphire');?>

but once I thought about it I realized that the link would make the directory (it didn't need to be specified) so I changed the symlink to :

<?php symlink('/home/honeybunny/public_html/ss242/sapphire', 'sapphire');?>

As for my other issues, all I had to do was add an empty folder in the subdomain's directory with the project name and everything worked out fine. I'm not sure why I had to do this, but I did and it worked.

Thanks again, you were a lot of help!

HB

ETA: Really freaky, I took a look at the tables before I called it a day and noticed that the primary domain's db shows utf-8_unicode_ci but the subdomain's db shows latin1_swedish_ci. I have no idea why or how that happened, but it doesn't seem to be bothering anything.