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What is the difference between Expression Engine 2 and 3? Why should I upgrade all of my sites?
I'll attempt to keep this answer opinion free!
Your first stop should be the EE3 changelog, and also catching up on the EllisLab blog over the past 6 months. But you'll also need to look at the EE2 ...
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MSM - Template on site 1 and I want different url on site 2 to goto that template
Per the docs: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/msm/code.html#embedding-templates-from-another-site
Just embed the template and pass the variables.
'{embed="site_short_name:template_group/...
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Mulit Site Mananager for development sites
It is possible but not recommended. As you know MSM site share same database, same tables only differ by site id. Now if you use same database for development site and do something strange and it ...
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Does Multisite Manager work the same with sub-directories, or is it better to use sub-domains?
Well, both things are fine in the terms of MSM. You can create sub-domain as well as sub-directory also. Just you need to take care is, about path settings at the time of setting MSM website.
And if ...
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Does Multisite Manager work the same with sub-directories, or is it better to use sub-domains?
I've done both. The only thing you'll have to consider it making sure your cookie domains are set correctly, depending on if it's a site2.domain.com or domain.com/site2. Otherwise, the MSM sites will ...
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MSM Will only load sub-site homepage, everything else 404's?
You are not directing sub-site requests to your mymainsite.com/sub-site/index.php file, so a URI like this: mymainsite.com/sub-site/page is being rendered by your main mymainsite.com/index.php file, ...
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EE 2 Multi site with one theme
Yes, it can be done. One way would be to turn on Save Templates as Files as in your Global Template Preferences, so your templates get saved to /system/expressionengine/templates/ and you can share ...
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Multi-Site Manager Limits
https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/msm/additional_sites.html
The theortical max limit on custom fields (which expands the channel_data table horizontally, not vertically) is the maximum ...
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MSM Upgrade from EE 2x to EE 3.5.16, now can only see primary site
The solution was to use the following:
setfacl -R -m u:site2-user:rwX /var/www/vhosts/site1.com/
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WYVERN not showing images due to relative paths (Multi Site Manager, EE2.11.7)
Here's a trick:
This allows the CMS to serve files over SSL or non-SSL, depending on whatever protocol is in use.
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Upgrade to EE3 breaks MSM
Yes, you do need to upgrade the MSM site licenses. The updates are $99 USD each.
https://expressionengine.com/blog/expressionengine-3-pricing-and-upgrades
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MSM Server Path Problems after upgrade to EE3
Turns out in this case that it was server settings that were preventing the communication between sites. It required:
Mod_ruid was disabled
suPHP enabled
FileProtect in Home »Server Configuration »...
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Unable to change site multisite EE3
In your backend, under Settings > Security & Privacy choose CP session type to Session ID Only
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A Link to Edit a Specific Site
I can think of two possible approaches:
I assume you're administering all sites through a single shared control panel? If so, you could consider switching to using per-site control panels - all it ...
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MSM and Grid Fields
No, you should be fine. It will be a pain in the ass to manually manipulate the schema (using a GUI tool like MySQL Workbench) since you will be looking at a list of hundreds of tables, but there is ...
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Cannot pull an image in from one site’s entry into another sites template?
Seems to be undocumented, but I think a relationship field tag pair accepts a site parameter:
{exp:channel:entries
site="sitea"
channel="my_channel"
disable="categories|category_fields|...
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best setup for a 1M entries EE site?
My suggestion would be to use services such as AWS. You would utilise RDS managed MYSQL services, Amazon S3 (Cloud based file storage), EC2 instances, auto scaling groups and a load balancer.
I know ...
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best setup for a 1M entries EE site?
What about using an SQL Cloud service like google or rackspace? Will that help?
It's not so much the size of the db, I think, as the expected traffic. You will certainly have to consider you hosting ...
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