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I’m posting this in the forum in case someone with more experience sees something wrong with this configuarion. Please speak up if you do. All I know is it works for me.

I was trying to achieve 1 website, 2 stores with 2 domain names and this is how I’ve done it:

First I delegated my 2 domain names to the same namservers -

Go to Catalog > Manage Categories
- I created 2 root categories as anchors (one for each store)

Go to System > Manage Stores
- I left the website name as is (mine was Main Website)

Create your first store - I can’t remember what the default is but you may already have a ‘first store’. if so, just follow the configuration settings.

If not -
Click on ‘Create store’
Website: (greyed out and should read the Website Name)
Name: Type in the name of your store
Root Category: Chose the relevant root category that you created
Default Store View: This one

Create Store View
Store: This one
Name: Type in the name of your store
Code: I called mine wheels but make it whatever nickname you want
Status: Enabled
Sort Order: 0
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2nd Store set up
- Create a new store
Name: Type in the name of your store
Root Category: Chose the relevant root category that you created
Default Store View: This one

Create Store View
Store: This one
Name: Type in the name of your store
Code: I called this one military but make it whatever nickname you want
Status: Enabled
Sort Order: 0

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Make sure your index.php file references the code of the default store (in my case ‘wheels’) so it reads:
Mage::run(’wheels’);

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Go to System > Configuration

Choose your first store in the dropdown on the left
Choose ‘Web’ from the menu on the left

For both ‘base URL’ AND ‘Base Link URL’ I put in:
http://www.myFIRSTstore.com/

SAVE this

Now choose the other site in the drop down and go to WEB

For both ‘base URL’ AND ‘Base Link URL’ I put in:
http://www.mySECONDstore.com/

If you do the above and your second store has no design it’s because you’re linking to a design that doesn’t exist yet (that’s a whole other post).
If you want your stores to have the same designs, you would put your first store URL in Base link URL for both stores.

I hope this helps people and please point out anything that isn’t clear or correct and I will come back and fix it up.

My 2 stores (in the making) can be seen at:
wheelsautomotivebooks.com.au
battlebridgemilitarybooks.com.au

My name server is 1&1;so my two domains point to a similar IP number.

What goes in the root of the second domain? 

.htaccess and index.php ? 

I tried editing the index file to point to

http://www.firstdomain.com but it brings up “ pp/Mage.php not found “

Need that last bit of help please. 

How does the second domain see magento?

To be honest, it was much easier than that. All I did was point the names to the same nameserver and put in the URL info in the config area as mentioned above. Sorry, that’s all I know. And I edited the index.php file on the server.

Did you do what I said above, and it’s not working?

Not sure what you mean.

Sorry to be so dense but 1&1;name servers only allow
me to put an IP address to my server.

Can you take a screen shot and show me what you did?

WHen you say “point to the config” please expand in
detail what this means.

I really want to nail this soon!

Cheers.

Do everything as above.

In my plesk I deleted the 2nd domain (remove physical hosting)

In the 1st domain I added a domain alias (create, domain2.com )

In the 1st domain change the index.php last lines…

require_once $mageFilename;

if ($_SERVER[’SERVER_NAME’] == ‘www.domain2.com’) Mage::run(’domain2_eng’);

note that run name = the code name you setup via magento config

lindaw - 14 April 2008 08:10 PM

I’m posting this in the forum in case someone with more experience sees something wrong with this configuarion. Please speak up if you do. All I know is it works for me.

I was trying to achieve 1 website, 2 stores with 2 domain names and this is how I’ve done it:

First I delegated my 2 domain names to the same namservers -

Go to Catalog > Manage Categories
- I created 2 root categories as anchors (one for each store)

Go to System > Manage Stores
- I left the website name as is (mine was Main Website)

Create your first store - I can’t remember what the default is but you may already have a ‘first store’. if so, just follow the configuration settings.

If not -
Click on ‘Create store’
Website: (greyed out and should read the Website Name)
Name: Type in the name of your store
Root Category: Chose the relevant root category that you created
Default Store View: This one

Create Store View
Store: This one
Name: Type in the name of your store
Code: I called mine wheels but make it whatever nickname you want
Status: Enabled
Sort Order: 0
----

2nd Store set up
- Create a new store
Name: Type in the name of your store
Root Category: Chose the relevant root category that you created
Default Store View: This one

Create Store View
Store: This one
Name: Type in the name of your store
Code: I called this one military but make it whatever nickname you want
Status: Enabled
Sort Order: 0

--------------------

Make sure your index.php file references the code of the default store (in my case ‘wheels’) so it reads:
Mage::run(’wheels’);

-------------------

Go to System > Configuration

Choose your first store in the dropdown on the left
Choose ‘Web’ from the menu on the left

For both ‘base URL’ AND ‘Base Link URL’ I put in:
http://www.myFIRSTstore.com/

SAVE this

Now choose the other site in the drop down and go to WEB

For both ‘base URL’ AND ‘Base Link URL’ I put in:
http://www.mySECONDstore.com/

If you do the above and your second store has no design it’s because you’re linking to a design that doesn’t exist yet (that’s a whole other post).
If you want your stores to have the same designs, you would put your first store URL in Base link URL for both stores.

I hope this helps people and please point out anything that isn’t clear or correct and I will come back and fix it up.

My 2 stores (in the making) can be seen at:
wheelsautomotivebooks.com.au
battlebridgemilitarybooks.com.au

How did you get the design/styles, product images and all that working with this setup?

Creating a new design for your second store.

In Admin -

Under Manage Stores, in Store View of your 2nd store take note of what you’ve used as the ‘code’. In my case the code was ‘military’

Now, using FTP -

To create new styles for your new store go to:

/public_html/skin/frontend/default/default/

Copy all the files in here onto your computer

Back to FTP

Create a new directory/folder in the same one that the second ‘default’ folder is in and call it the name of your Store View ‘code’ (mine is military). I now have a default directory and a military directory

Now upload the files you copied from the default directory into your new directory.

You now have a new css and images directory for your second store. Edit these and your 2nd store should use them.

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For the layout etc do the same as above but follow this path:

/public_html/app/design/frontend/default/

BUT only copy the files/folders you intend to change. Magento falls back on the default folder for anything that isn’t in your new folder.

Hope this helps.

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