Is it not better to keep the themes folder local (so not as a symlink) as in this folder you place the site specified template?

@ UncleCheese Can you kindly send me your script for creating the multiple sites I work for a school district and this would greatly help us create the high school, elementary school and middle school websites utilizing your script my email address is adanso239@gmail.com thank you.

Hi Juanitou

when you say

-Copy also the .htaccess file (after installing the SS3 environment) and modify the RewriteBase directive.

what should the RewriteBase Directive be?

I'm getting a lot of "Failed opening required File" because it's not on the Include path,

I'm sure something (apache or PHP) needs to put a / on the end of the include paths to find the required files but I'm not sure how to tell it that

my .htaccess has :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase '/'

RewriteRule ^vendor(/|$) - [F,L,NC]
RewriteRule silverstripe-cache(/|$) - [F,L,NC]
RewriteRule composer\.(json|lock) - [F,L,NC]

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

my site directory is in /var/www/mysite
and framework is in /var/www/ss3/framework and cms /var/www/ss3/cms

the symlinks are working and the _ss_environment.php in /var/www/mysite is being read and working

cheers

EDIT:

it looks like it stems from having my BASE_PATH set incorrectly by blindly copying somebody else's statement above

my one has one less dirname() call
define('BASE_PATH', rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR));

I think I'm using SS 3.1.3 - I can't tell which because composer doesn't say (or I don't know how to ask it)
the silverstripe_version files in the framework and cms dirs are blank

When I try to sue symlinks for cms and framework (to ../ss3/framework) I end up with a
PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Zend_Cache in /var/www/nzia/framework/thirdparty/Zend/Cache.php on line 28

So I don't know if this is in the Autoloader manifest twice somewhere or what