Okay, I've been working excessive amounts of OT at work lately, so I admit up-front I've likely overlooked some answers for one reason or another. I have looked far and wide for the answers and I'm at an currently impassable, highly-frustrated point. So I'd like to ask everyone here to see what we can come up with.
The SME Server in question (6.5RC1) is hosting my company's intranet, as well as other company sites and quite a few personal sites as well. The question I have is regarding virtual domains. Now I've looked throughout the site, including topics just happening to be about virtual domains, and I don't believe I've come across conversation or instructionals that would clue me in on the answers I need. However, if someone here happens to have links I didn't clue-in to or happened to miss, that's answers as much as anything else I'll appreciate.
I have decided to use MoveableType as a new link off the main site, which uses CGI-BIN as well as HTML folders. Using the tutorial I found on here to set it up, I got it to work just fine for the PRIMARY domain on the server. I know what it looks like and have used it and it works there just fine. I have a virtual domain as a personal site. Setting it up on a virtual domain is where I've run into problems.
First I tried creating an i-bay (all i-bays are named uniquely to identify their association with their main bays), setting it up there, and then trying to go to the virtual domain (
www.virtualdomain.blah/subdirectory) - NoGo. Getting no page found. Well, hmm. So I try (foolish step here) copying the contents into a subdirectory under the virtual domain itself on the SME server, and try it there - okay, dumb move, not working, virtual domains work differently and don't just link like that. So, I try again. I copy the CGI-BIN folders into the virtual domain's i-bay CGI-BIN folder, create a subfolder under the HTML folder and put the HTML files there, and try it.
Now I can get to most of the MoveableType data. However, the HTML data doesn't look right, and doesn't link right (somewhere I hear someone saying "well, of course...") .
I know I've just forgotten a few steps here, and I know I need to learn a few things about how virtual domains and i-bays work. I won't claim to be perfect. Most of how SME works, as well as i-bays and virtual domains, was self-taught and on-the-fly. I promise to only admit to knowing what I've already learned, and to be willing to learn what I don't yet know.
I have a few basic questions here: (1) can a virtual domain only use up to 1 index file and\or 1 i-bay? (2) how do you use additional i-bays with virtual domains, or can you? (3) do you, and if so how do you, link additional i-bays to virtual domains outside of the normal setups?
I will thank anyone with constructive comments or suggestions here. I've been looking at all sorts of course, from Google-ing outside to all potential forums on the topics. I've just been worked hard lately and I'm really tired, so I'm sure I've just overlooked the answers somewhere.
(2nd time I've had to type this. Rrrr...)
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