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@rene Reimann. I don’t know what version I used. If you released a new version since I posted, then no, I haven’t tried that. And probably won’t since I was able to get it handled another way and no longer have the specific need anymore. Thank you for following up.

ok, thank you for the tip.

that line was already there as ‘false’.

but you gave me some juice to fiddle with it a bit more – and now it is working! yay!

the problem was that i had created a couple of test sites as subdomains. these were still there and screwing things up causing some apache errors.

i deleted those subdomain sites and that seems to have cleared up the errors and now the subdirectory testsite is launching properly.

re: db explanation. aha, got it! that makes complete sense. excellent insight. quite simple when you describe it like that. knowing that will come in handy, i’m sure. thank you.

re: symlinks. i’m probably not keen to experiment on this. since i’m looking at only a few blogs in total, won’t be *that* much work to update them, so not willing to put in too much time to pioneer a workaround – and risk losing their tech support help if I f* it up.

more looking for an already proven method specific to GD where someone can say do x, then y, then z and voila, you’re done. but even if someone has done it, it doesn’t sound like it’d be that simple based on what you’re saying.

but thanks for engaging in the dialogue. i appreciate it.

Hi whooami:

Thanks very much for taking a look and sharing some ideas.

I haven’t seen that post by Ryan (which is very good), but I’ve done enough googling to know that it is possible to do multiple sites off single code base in WP. The thing I am not sure about is does that apply to GoDaddy set up – and if so, how.

As Ryan himself points out: “…this method cannot be used with most shared hosting providers.” And GoDaddy tech support tells me it can’t be done – or at least no one that I’ve spoken to knows how to do it (I’ve called half dozen times to try to find a rep who has knowledge of how to do it, even if GD won’t support it explicitly).

My level of knowledge regarding things Linux and php is relatively low – my focus is on the site concepts, creating the content, and themeing, so doing command line access stuff as suggested in the ryanmcdonnell.com link is possibly beyond me. I could do it using a step-by-step guide, but short of that…

I guess I learned (some) of the terminology because I run a bunch of Drupal sites off one codebase, but the configuration thereof is well beyond me and was done by another quite deeply technical person.

Via the Drupal experience, I know we could not do what we wanted with one hositng provider – they wouldn’t allow the directory structure we needed. And with another, there were serious problems with how they configured their servers that impacted performance. So but we found a solution with a 3rd provider, tho it required substantial command line work to make it work – though it now does and it is great.

As to 1 vs. 25 vs. 100 DBs – again, beyond my know how. With Drupal, we use individual DBs for each site. I have heard that people run multiple sites off the same DB in Drupal, and apparently, in WP, but I don’t know how to do that.

Understood about the space point. Ultimately that’s the real limiting factor – my sites aren’t space intensive, so not a constraint I focus on.

Again, thanks for assistance. Any further thoughts welcome.

J

Scott:

Thank you for being so responsive. I appreciate it.

I can confirm steps 1 & 2 above. I closed and restarted browser to avoid some sort caching issue.

I do not know how to do step #3. Where is that log file located?

I will forward error log for #4 via email.

Thanks again,
John

Ok, very good. Thank you for following up.

So I deleted ‘break;’ line you indicated – and now that error message has cleared.

However, there is still a problem: My theme editor is now not working. Specifically, I cannot open any file but the default .css file that opens when i go into the editor.

When I click to open another file, the page refreshes and appears to load, including switching over to the correct url, but the actual page content remains the same. It doesn’t change.

When I deactivate your module, the editor again works normally. I can open and edit any file.

Any suggestions why this might be? Thank you!

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Here are my other modules in case there might be a conflict:

Akismet 2.2.3
All in One SEO Pack 1.4.9
Google Analytics for WordPress 2.9.1
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2
Redirection 2.1.13
SEO Friendly Images 2.4.2
Simple AdSense Insert 1.1
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Never mind. Fixed.

Problem was a module I installed after I’d finished working in the editor. Module generating an error. Once deactivated, editor is now working properly again.

Ah, very good! Thank you. That got me going in the right direction.

Quite a lot more complicated than I would have imagined, but I guess that’s what’s involved in building a dynamic menu system – something I’ve never done before.

And after a couple hours work, it is working very well now with some nice added CSS styling, so quite worthwhile.

I have a hard time reading your blog – not that I can read Swedish, but it is very hard to even keep my eyes on the content as I find the vertical lines very visual strong and distracting. The background is much more interesting to look at than the blog content itself.

But maybe that’s just me.