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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

Sorry for such newbie questions ... but here goes. Will Magento cope with the following scenario

1) Multiple stores on the same server with unique urls - main store = shop1.com, other stores = shop2.com, shop3.com, etc. - each one being a separate folder off the root directory.
2) Each shop shares 1 shopping cart/checkout - ie, if I buy from shop2.com then the sale details will be available to admin of the main store shop1.com but the customer will get invoice from shop2.com not shop1.com, etc?
3) In this scenario, would one SSL certificate suffice for all the shops or will I need one for each separate domain (ie, shop1.com, shop2.com, etc).
4) Similarly, will each domain require its own IP address?
5) How many different sites can Magento run without performance problems? My client has c.100 separate sites that he wants to manage from a central admin & single shopping cart site ala Magento.

Thanks in advance for your time & help,
Eddie

The questions that “freshwebservices” asked are almost exactly the same as I was going to ask here so I also look for these answers!

Anyone?

Hi @johannes,

your videos are great but I didn’t understand how to setup multiple stores on multiple different URL.
When you don’t have multiple different URL to your disposal, could you describe the way in a text description ?

Thanks
rapado

hello,

again a quite nice magento screencast

go on boys n girls

@rapado:

does it matter which URL it is ?
you can chosse the same domain with a subfolder…

In this scenario, does each store get its own checkout?

This seems to not work when “batch” adding products to the new store front.

I already have XXXX products in the system already and don’t want to go thru each of the individually to enable them to the new site. So from MANAGE PRODUCTS I select everything, and Update Attributes to enable them into the new store, but they don’t show up until I open each product up manually and add the new website again and choose the “Copy Data from: Default Values” selection.

Is there a way to do this by batching? or did I do it wrong?

It seems to me that it would work if “Copy Data from: Default Values” would show up when selecting the website on a batch attribute upload from the Manage Products.

Please explain how to set the different url’s for different websites!

I’ve tryed to redirect it but then you go the the other url/directory
is there a way to keep it in the initial different url.
???
Please help out!
kind regards,
edg1

Really impressive, great possibilities for webshop owners. But we need to study and learn.

Best Regards

OK i’ve found it!
When you want to add different urls its quit easy you just have to change the link url into the url you want and then add addon in your mail shop setup-url.
in this folder you add a new index file changed it to point to the new website.
and that should work fine!

thats it…

maybe a problem with “open base dir restriction” happens… but this could be fixed with manual editing of the apache conf....

it’s quite simple to change the complette store-url ... or do subdomains and so on ...

thumbs up

"I just didn’t have multiple domains at my disposal when making the video”

you gotta be kidding me

I’m new to all of this. I’ve looked for several hours at the features of magento because I want to replace an existing site.  My mall site is for small mom and pop type store owners who either don’t know how to set up an online store or cannot afford to. I do not want to get directly involved with their transactions but only supply them with an inexpensive way to be on the internet.  The features I am looking for: Multiple storefronts for independant merchants, separate cart for each storefront with independant merchant accounts.  Everything that I have seen looks great, just not an everyday web site builder and could not tell if this is how the script is set up.
Thanks, Steve in cold Ohio

Hi Steve,
I don’t think Mage multiple stores is what you are looking for - it doesn’t mean that you can manage multiple, completely separate websites, each one linked to a separate client, each with a separate login, separate customer database, etc, etc from the one install of Mage.

Rather, multiple stores refers to the ability of a web store owner to set up ostensibly separate websites - say, one store for brand X clothers, another for brand Y clothes etc, but sharing a common checkout, customer database, etc. Have a look at Gap.com for an idea of the concept.

At least, that’s how I’ve understood it!

Eddie

Thanks Eddie, The script I have been looking at is iBotique by NetArt media (netartmedia.net).  It uses one primary database but individule php index script files for each vendor to operate the individule stores.  Everything is controlled by a main administrator with limited administrator control for each vendor to maintain their stores.  It’s an all right script, more than I wanted to pay and it lacks many of the features in magento.  I was just hoping to have more control over the front end look and operation of the script.  I appreciate your imput.

Thanks again....Steve

First define your websites and stores under System -> Manage Stores and then, provided you already parked your second domain (http://www.seconddomain.com) on top of the main domain (http://www.maindomain.com):

you will have something like:

WebsiteName   WebsiteCode
-------------------------------------------
website1         web1code
website2         web2code

// web1code is usually ‘base’

Then edit System -> Configuration -> website1 -> Web tab and :
        set {Base URL}        to your http://www.maindomain.com/
        set {Base Link URL} to your http://www.maindomain.com/

Then edit System -> Configuration -> website2 -> Web tab and :
     set {Base URL}        to your http://www.maindomain.com/
     set {Base Link URL} to your http://www.seconddomain.com/

Then edit index.php under the root folder of you maindomain and change:

    Mage::run(’base’, ‘website’);

to:

switch ($_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’]){
    case “www.seconddomain.com”:
    case “seconddomain.com”;
        Mage::run(’web2code’, ‘website’);
       // where web2code is the code of your second website from under manage Stores -> Edit Website
    break;

    default:
       Mage::run(’web1code’, ‘website’);
}

That’s it! No add-on domains required. I have successfully handled this way 3 secondary domains (parked on top of the main domain) each featuring slightly different product catalog.

P.S. The only thing I don’t like about this set up is the img href’s, css href’s and so on point to maindomain.com for all secondary websites

Good luck.

@CalinT This is amazing. Works like a charm. Infact I have domain.com, subdomain1.domain.com and subdomain2.domain.com setup and it works correctly.

I havent tinkered with CSS etc ... just wanted to try the subdomains instead of primary domains. Thanks for the help.

HI every body I have a question .

I have set up Multi Domain Website and its working fine but my question is as follows

I register as a user on Domain A
I want to use the same details of Domain A to Log into Domain B but it refuse and say user not found where as both the domain A and B are running on behind same Magento Application . 

Can Any one Guide me how to make this possible that is User of Domain A logins to Domain B with the same details

Regards

quelqu’un a t’il une reelle information complete a fournir pour installer un multiwebsite multidomaine avec magento ?

Hi,

anybody have a really and runing solution to install multi website ?

LK

the video is so outdated so I can’t even reproduce the steps…

pls how to do this with the actual version of magento?

Hello Hugoto
I can set up your multi store and guide you contact me

Regards

Shehz

Found this relatively recent documentation on multiple storefronts here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/how_to_automatically_redirect_to_a_store_view_based_on_the_browser_language

Actually, sorry, here’s a better link:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/general/multiple-website-setup

@Kim S - Thank you for your apreciation. I’m delighted to see that my post helped somebody. 

Although I think my post is self explanatory I welcome an questions. Just post the question under this thread and I’ll do my best to answer it.

@MagentoSepcialist

Although I don’t see a reason for loggin in to multiple domains , you may try to play with mySQL table “customer_entity” and duplicate the records while changing the website ID field. Not sure it wors, but it should. Not an “up front” solution though, I realize that.

how i can see two domains in localhost which share the same database

Please explain how to set the different url’s for different websites!
I’ve tryed to redirect it but then you go the the other url/directory
is there a way to keep it in the initial different url???

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Do I also need to create, in the index.php file, symbolic links to point to a few directories??
o ln -s ../magento/404 ./404
o ln -s ../magento/app ./app
o ln -s ../magento/includes ./includes
o ln -s ../magento/js ./js
o ln -s ../magento/media ./media
o ln -s ../magento/skin ./skin
o ln -s ../magento/report ./report
o ln -s ../magento/var ./var
o ln –s ../magento/lib ./lib

I am asking this because at the fooman Speedster extension it says that I have to.
But when I put these symbolic links in the file then the site stops working and it gives me an error:
(Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘/’ )

This is in the installation guide at the Fooman Extension:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/reviews/module/457/p/14/

Thank you very much!

but this video is a fake… it doesn’t work with last magento version

That’s a bit harsh!

thanks alot for sharing.
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Hi All - I hope you are all well.

Magento really rocks, well done guys and gals. However.....

I think I must be a bit thick as a I cannot get my head round this.

I have:

Website. 2 stores. 2 store views.

website = http://www.hair-skin-sun.com

Store 1. on blue theme with product and customer database etc.

Store 2. I want to create a consulting section with modern theme. I have set up the skeleton store & theme.

Now. I own another domain called http://www.salon-advice.co.uk and I would like my “store 2” to be reachable when some one types http://www.salon-advice.co.uk into a browser. And to all intents and purposes the site visitor will be in http://www.salon-advice.co.uk and this will be reflected in the address bar.

Also if I am doing a mail out I would like to direct prospects to either:

http://www.hair-skin-sun.com/landing-page-x.html or http://www.salon-advice.co.uk/landing-page-y.html

Now I have a headache…

Can some one please help me (in thick bloke terms) how to do this please??

Thanks a million

Mick

Store 2 =

PS::::: I Aim to abandon the origonal www salon-advice .co.uk and rebuild this site inside my Maganto store as store 2…

Ta

Mick