Comments on: Running multiple Magento stores on multiple domains from a single index.php

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:25:09 +0000

There is also an other solution based only on .htaccess directives, Magento internal websites/stores precise settings, index.php customization, and parts of code snippets you reported 🙂 , plus is it possible also to set “fallback” websites/stores. Cheers and thanks!

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:29:30 +0000

Hi Jools,

Thanks for the post. I would like to know is this applicable for multiple website with single stores on each .
for eg; Wesite1(Engllish)
–> Wesite 1 store view(English)
–> English Store
Wesite2(Japanese)
–> Wesite 2 store view(Japanese)
–> Japanese Store

By: Jonathon Byrd

Jonathon Byrd — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:44:51 +0000

Another problem that I’ve been having: It seems that all of my Magento URLS are pointing back to the main domain. Anyway that I could pay you for a couple hours of your time?

By: Jonathon Byrd

Jonathon Byrd — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:41:54 +0000

Hey Jools, Bravo Brother. You did an excellent job on this tutorial. This is my complete first time setting up a multi-store site with Magento. I apologize for my ignorance, but you left out the magento configuration urls as well as the manage store settings.

My site is in an infinite redirect loop.

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By: Sudipta

Sudipta — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:22:59 +0000

Is it same for Magento 1.5 .1

By: WebFlakeStudio

WebFlakeStudio — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:49:32 +0000

Good approach! I like it.

By: Sahus Pilwal

Sahus Pilwal — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:34:07 +0000

Is this tutorial and setup still applicable for CE v.1.4.1.1…???

By: Test

Test — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:57:14 +0000

In reply to Jools Wills. alert(33);

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:11:34 +0000

Hi,
I am trying do another type of setup, for example my main url is

company.com and I am selling from companystore.com , but when checkout I want it to checkout from company.com. The problem is the store can add product but when checkout it going to another URL and it shows cart is empty.

Anyone knows the problem.

regards

By: conec

conec — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:53:39 +0000

Hi,

I have Multiple Web Sites and Stores – each are diferent providers from different locations all over the world.

I want the customer to be able to buy from any of those “Web Site” or “Store” – and to checkout from the main WebSite “Base”.

-I need in the Global Cart, the total amount of purchases + all shipping fees.

A idea?

By: Jools Wills

Jools Wills — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:15:47 +0000

In reply to Paul. not sure how google will treat the page linking css from the other site in terms of rank, but you should be able to make it pull in the css etc from the current URL. Please check you have set the baseurl for each website, to the correct domain in the Magento admin (/index.php/admin/system_config/edit/section/web/)

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:13:31 +0000

Dear all,

I would greatly appreciate your advice. I think I face an SEO issue with the configuration of my multi web sites. Here you are what I have :

site.fr
site.com
site.de
site.ru
site.cn

When I look the code source they all get their “stylesheet” from an other domain : site.info

For example the site.com code source is :

link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://www.site.info/skin/frontend/sitecom/site/css/reset.css” media=”all” />
link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://www.site.info//skin/frontend/sitecom/site/css/boxes.css” media=”all” />

When I look the magento mall example it is more like i should have somthing like that :

link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://www.site.com/skin/frontend/sitecom/site/css/reset.css” media=”all” />
link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://www.site.com/skin/frontend/sitecom/site/css/boxes.css” media=”all” />

I do think that this is an SEO issue specilay for google. Would it be possible that google does not like the fact the some files of the code come from an other domain?

I wonder that because I am very well rank (1st or 2nd place) for more than 150 keywords on Yahoo, Baidou and Yandex, but I stay at 2nd or 3rd page one google.

What do you think of that?

Thank you for your answer

By: d00d

d00d — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:06:01 +0000

dude! awesome awesome awesome. This is a really great way of making this happen. I wish I’d found it earlier.

By: Viacheslav

Viacheslav — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:53:15 +0000

I had the similar problem as Tal Mor, but in my case the solution was to put cookies path as “/” in Backend->System->Configuration->Web->Session Cookie management->Cookie Path

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:39:21 +0000

http://www.magento-mall.com/

I want to develop the same site on my local machine (except design) but the functionality and url pattern should be same).
PLease help me Jools.

ANd shopping cart should share common in all store. and i have to implement in on my local machine and then to webserver.

Please help Jools waiting for u r valuable answer with the steps to be followed to implement it on local machine.
Thanks In advance

By: jai

jai — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:51:45 +0000

Do i have to add firstly the language folder like nl_NL ( for Dutch) for this on app/locale folder? .Or it needed only these changes.

By: MKG

MKG — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:26:33 +0000

I am trying to get to the point where this is the issue:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/33300/
I’m pretty sure it is possible, I just don’t know what to call. BTW the domains are on the same host. 1 dedicated ip with SSL, the other is an add on domain (index.php , .htaccess, and with to codebase)

By: Jools Wills

Jools Wills — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:15:37 +0000

In reply to MKG. I don't think you can do that. To share the cart, each store must live under a single website, and run from the same domain. Of course you could have store.domain and store2.domain (in that case you might need to set the cookie domain differently in the admin panel).

By: MKG

MKG — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:51:25 +0000

How do you get two different domains to share cart contents with the session id. Any syntax help would be appreciated. Two websites, two stores, shared checkout.

By: Tal Mor

Tal Mor — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:10:27 +0000

In reply to Tal Mor.

SOLVED!

I copied the php.ini file in the root folder of magento to my second store subfolder and voila!

What is probably happening is that this php.ini overrides some settings of the main php.ini of my host and apparently this doesn’t happen unless it’s in the root folder of the store.

Thanks for all your help.

By: Tal Mor

Tal Mor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:45:59 +0000

Another find is that on my local installation ( identical to my remote one ) running xampp on windows everything works fine when using your instructions.

So I guess I will try to email my hosting provider although I’m pretty sure he will not have a clue.

Tal

By: Jools Wills

Jools Wills — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:34:13 +0000

In reply to Tal Mor. yes.

By: Tal Mor

Tal Mor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:21:50 +0000

In reply to Jools Wills.

Another question:

In your site structure, are the symbolic links ?
js -> ../magento/js
media -> ../magento/media
skin -> ../magento/skin

By: Jools Wills

Jools Wills — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:51:25 +0000

my rewrite solution above makes magento think it is running two stores from the same folder even though it isn’t.