Magento

Impressive and needed, since it’s a major change from previous method.  When can we expect the 2nd video on administering multiple stores within the same website to be available?

Dell - the 2nd video should be up there by the end of the day on Friday.

when i change the store THEM from “default” i get this error…

any idea?

exception ‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid store requested: “default”.’ in /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/Mage.php:377
Stack trace:
#0 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(527): Mage::throwException(’Invalid store r...’)
#1 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Url/Rewrite.php(139): Mage_Core_Model_App->getStore()
#2 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php(109): Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite->rewrite()
#3 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(440): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->init()
#4 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(721): Mage_Core_Model_App->_initFrontController()
#5 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/app/Mage.php(421): Mage_Core_Model_App->getFrontController()
#6 /home/hbaetcco/domains/hbaetc.com/public_html/magento/index.php(29): Mage::run(’default’)
#7 {main}

@nafnaf1000 - the blog comments are not the place for technical questions and pasting code. Please use the forum in the future.

Will this bulk stores share customers informations?
I think there have two kinds mult stores. One is same domain another is use several domains.How control several domains in one admin?
there have another interesting confunction,Like ioffer.com allow customers sell their goods on your store.If this kind confunction possible?

To set up multiple domains you would follow the same steps as are in the video above.  I just didn’t have multiple domains at my disposal when making the video

If you wanted for example “shoestore.com” you would redirect this domain to the “shoestore” directory that we created in the video.

Customer accounts can be shared globally, or per website.  You can configure this from System -> Configuration -> Customers Configuration -> Account Sharing Options.

Thanks for the video.
Do the additional directories for the additional stores have to be anywhere specific, i.e., inside the Magento folder or directory where the main site was installed on the server?
Also, is it possible to have different pricing on each of the different stores, for instance a wholesale store, a retail store and a consumer store?

As far as I can tell it is not possible to set pricing at the store level as this is showing up as global. You can of course have different pricing for different customer groups so you could have a wholesale customer group across all stores. From what I read (haven’t tried it yet) it is possible to set different pricing and delivery methods at the website level so this would seem to be the answer for setting up a wholesale store.

Correction to my earlier post - discovered this post:
Prices scope can be changed in configuration. Please go to admin -> System -> Configuration -> General -> Price -> Scope

Forgive the ignorant question (?) and I think I may know the answer based on what I read/saw, but could a web dev potentially have a single install of Magento and then set it multiple stores for clients based off that one install.

From what I’ve seen it is possible to
a. have different stores at different domains, with different looks
b. have different products/price sets for each of the stores

But could the stores basically be isolated, with permissions, etc… so that a store owner could maintain their store in complete isolation from the others (i.e. no sharing of attributes, customer info etc...)? Would they run of the same database?

@nate_02631:  Multiple websites under one magento installation will still share one admin panel - meaning, orders from all websites will show up in the ‘sales’ module… all customers will show up under ‘customers’.  And yes, as far as I know they will run off the same database.

To best accomplish what you describe, I would think multiple Magento installations are required.  The separation of data between websites is to keep track of front-end activity - if you run a lingerie store and a gun store you might not want customers accounts and order information to be shared between them

1. I want to know if a client can have one chart and one checkout for all stores within one website or he must checkout from each store.

2. What about different stores on different websites? One chart and one checkout or multiple charts and checkouts from each websites?

In the video, for the step where you change the index.php from:
umask(0);
Mage::run(’default’);

to:

umask(0);
Mage::run(’shoestore’,’website’’);

In my “index.php” the code is:

umask(0);
Mage::run();

(Note no ‘default’)

Would I follow the same editing step, even though there was no “default” in there initially?

Thanks,
Stretchr

Oops. Sorry. Will ask in the forums.

Stretchr