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Parallel installation of Joomla and Virtuemart

Offline TTown

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Parallel installation of Joomla and Virtuemart
« on: October 10, 2007, 05:36:34 AM »
Hello Everyone,

using http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38233.msg172742#msg172742 to install Joomla I finally got an installation that allows switching languages.
Now I'd like to add a separate Joomla/Virtuemart installation which should be https from start to finish. It should respond to a different virtual host name hosted at the same ip. I tried SMESiteMaker for creating a separate website and install the http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=392&Itemid=66 Virtuemart complete package, but enabling php manually for all these sub folders drove me nuts. And I somehow doubt that this would have fixed "everything".

Please advise me on how to procede.

I just got started with sme a few weeks ago and love the ease of getting a secure mail server up and running. But hosting several virtual hosts, which was quite self explaining on ubuntu, comes as a real challenge now. I am not great with Linux and my experience so far was more on the debian / ubuntu side of the spectrum.
So please be patient and explicit in your recommendations.

Thank you in advance and
Best Regards
Stefan
(fnord)

Offline raem

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Re: Parallel installation of Joomla and Virtuemart
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2007, 06:26:48 AM »
TTown

>... enabling php manually for all these sub folders drove me nuts.
> And I somehow doubt that this would have fixed "everything".

So you want something that won't drive you nuts, but is guaranteed to fix everything easily.

> Please advise me on how to procede.

Follow the SiteMaker steps fully and prove it does/doesn't work, before concluding that it won't work & giving up too early.
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Offline TTown

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Fixed: Re: Parallel installation of Joomla and Virtuemart
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2007, 04:37:03 PM »
Thank you for the advice,

I really did not have to change / enable php root directory specifically. The global settings were just fine. I only thought, since joomla heavily relies on php, I'd have to make some adjustments there.
Runs great now.
php is using /tmp for the session save path but there is a work around for that, too.

SMEsitemanager is really one great tool.


Best regards
Stefan Reitz
(fnord)