The first video goes through the basics of creating a completely separate website within the Magento installation, to be controlled from the same admin.  Below are the necessary steps to do this, carried out and recorded on the 0.9.17740 version of Magento:

• Step 1:  Creating a new folder for second website, copying index.php and .htaccess, necessary change of code to index.php
• Step 2:  Creating a new root category for the second website
• Step 3:  Creating the website in the admin, along with a store and store view
• Step 4:  Configuring the URL structure of the new site
• Step 5:  Adding categories and products
• Step 6:  Associating products with the new website

Please note:  This demonstration uses example.com and some symlinks to make the URLs more readable.  You may notice the url of the second website switching between http://www.example.com/magento/mainstore/shoestore and http://www.example.com/magento/shoestore - this is why.  In a live environment each site will most likely have its own IP, so different domain names could be configured accordingly.

This is Part 1 of 2 videos showing Multiple Websites/Stores.  Part 2 will go into more detail about store views and multiple stores under the same website.

Stretchr

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

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

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

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?

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.

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}