This is how it’s supposed to work, however it doesn’t work right now. Anyway you should create a site council if you don’t want your site’s network settings to be altered. Enable super_admin to configure the site and disable it once you got everything set up.

• Put your database configuration in config/database.yml
• setup the database:
  rake db:schema:load
  rake db:migrate
  rake cg:load_default_data
• Edit “config/crabgrass.production.yml” to your needs (remove or comment the super_admin line to disable it)
• run the following for every site you configured:
  rake cg:site:create NAME=name-of-the-site
• now fire up “script/console” and do the following (for each site)
  Site.find_by_name("name-of-the-site").update_attributes!(:domain => "your.domain.name", :title => "Title for the site", :default => false)
  set :default to “true” instead if you want this site to be used for all domains where no site is configured.
• For every site which needs a site home, you need to create a network. Create them via your browser now.
  Make sure to remember the “Link Name” of those networks, as you need them now.

Back in script/console: Site.find_by_name("name-of-the-site").update_attributes!(:network => Network.find_by_name("link-name-of-network"), :has_networks => false) Set :has_networks to “true” if you want users of that site to be able to create new networks.

• Now restart crabgrass and visit one of your sites. If the network is configured correctly you should see the “Home” tab
  in the navigation now.
• If you navigate to that “Home” tab, you will find a link “Network Settings” on the right bottom. Go there and switch
  to “Permissions” tab. Click “Create a new council” and enter a name. Now members of this council should be able to
  reach the “/admin” tab.