We are planning to use subdomains ie.cdn1.example.com, cdn2.example.com to deliver product images.
How to configure Magento for this?
How to handle Magento cache folder which save auto-generated thumbnails as per template?
If you're using an origin pull CDN like AWS Cloudfront, you just fill in the information telling their system your web server name, they provide you with a server name (randomchars.cloudfront.net) on their end and then you use a CNAME record in your DNS to point their server name at your subdomain name like media.example.com.
Then your base media URL becomes http://media.example.com/media/ and everything's pretty much automatic from there.
Using origin pull gets rid of having to maintain a separate system to host your images and try to get Magento to upload to it, or figure out how to replicate Magento's media folder to it.
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im trying to have the same backend but with multiple subdomains. first i created one of my subdomains in the backend has showen in this image above.
And is working fine, but not i need the same backend with another subdomain for example "sync.mydomain.com", but i cant find any information on magento docs in configuring custom admin url in multiple domains. Does someone have any idea if it is possible to configure it on magento?
In order to make magento work with multiple domains, you need to make few steps.
System->Manage Stores -> Create Store Fill in the store fields,
taking care that the Website and Root Category are the same as your
primary site.store. Save Store
Create Store View Fill in the store view fields, change Store to the
new store you just created, give your store view a Name (spaces ok),
a code and make sure it’s enabled, after that save the store view.
System->Configuration->Web Change the scope on the upper left to your newly created store view
Change Unsecure->Base URL to your second domain (You’ll have to uncheck Use Website)
Change Secure->Base URL to your second domain (You’ll have to uncheck Use Website)
Save Config
Open the .htaccess at the root of your Magento install
Add the following, obviously changing the values with your own:
SetEnvIf Host www.mysecondarydomain.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=yoursecondarystoreviewcode
SetEnvIf Host ^mysecondarydomain.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=yoursecondarystoreviewcode
Clear the cache and re-index the site.
Here is the article for more information:
http://madproject.com/programming/magento-one-site-multiple-domains/
I am hoping somebody can help me because I am on the verge of frustration tears.
The company I work for has a site hosted on godaddy and has to remain up until I complete the rebuild on hostgator, using the Wordpress theme, Grand Restaurant http://themes.themegoods2.com/?theme=GrandRestaurant
To get around the domain name issue since I cannot change nameservers yet, I had to use the Google Chrome plugin, Virtual Hosts, which has me input the IP and domain, to force access to the site.
Everything was working fine until I needed to use the "content builder." If you look at the Grand Restaurant theme, you can click on Menu. I need to use the "Menu Grid" option in the content builder but it does not work. Whenever I try to add the menu grid, it appears that it is trying to load (showing the gif loading image) yet in never actually loads. I have spent several days and hours going back and forth with host gator and the theme developer.
The theme developer says that the content builder does not work because:
"The WordPress URL and Site URL are set to the domain name. When you are logged in, you are being redirected to the IP, so the browser sees 2 different sites and some functionality ex. AJAX call doesn't allow you to get data from different URLs.
Your WordPress URL and Site URL settings are different from your actual site. You have to change your Domain Name URL and Site URL settings to the IP number."
I did what he said earlier today and it completely broke the site. Spent nearly 2 hours with host gator's tech support to get it back up. All tech support will tell me in regards to the content builder not working is that I need to change the AJAX file to allow the site URL and wordpress URL to be different. I have no idea how to do that!
Any wisdom you all could provide would be greatly appreciated. I have 1700 bakery items that I need upload by the end of July and I do not know what I am going to do if I cannot get the content builder working.
In order for this to work properly you should be using a method of back up and restore. By migrating from one hosting provider to another you could simply deploy the new Wordpress on host gator as a new site and import the Wordpress backup to the host gator with the many different plugins available through Wordpress. The way your trying to complete this is impossible and usually will only work with images and back ups being managed on virtual machines, and VPS. It won't hurt anything on the original up and running site. You mentioned that host gator was able to get the site back up? You shouldn't have to rebuild this if you use a back up and restore method. Everything should fall right into place, you can also test these methods through virtual box, and VMware virtualization products which offer trial versions. Try using a migration method and see if the conflicts still persist with the content builder.
Heres is what I would do if you cannot change the domain over but still use the domain for the dev environment.
Modify your hosts file and use hostgators IP and the company domain as the entry.
Install wordpress to the current company domain by simply entering the domain (Should go to hostgators server since you've added that entry in your hosts file)
With the hosts file modification, you should be able to view the wordpress site thats hosted with hostgator using the live domain name.
This way, when you're launching, theres no need to do any modification on wordpress. Simply change the DNS over, revert your hosts file and the site will swap over seamlessly.
Would is be possible to have Magento to be installed on domain-a.com but not using this domain as store front?
like this:
domain-a.com magento installation and backend access
domain-b.com store front 1
domain-c.com store front 2
The easiest way is to restrict the acccess to that domain only on your admin folder in your .htaccess or your vhost.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-multi-site-multi-domain-setup
here is a good tutorial.
In the Magento installation wizard, should the base url include www or not?
Ex: www.site.com or site.com
If you plan on using a cdn to distribute your images, etc. yes, it would be a really, really good idea to have your web server use a www. host name instead of using only the bare domain name.
It's not cool when your customers start having blecherous cookie problems due to not using proper host names to sort out the different cname entries in your DNS.
Changing after the fact results in humorous non-SEO friendly reindexing by Google, Bing, et. al.
I created a custom web form for a magento website, on a local server which has only one website setup, i could access the form using the URL but when i upload the module to the server which has multiple website setup, i cannot access the form using the URl ,
for e.g on my local server i could access the form as
http://localhost/cars/index.php/surcontest-contest
but when i upload the module e.g dev.test.org on the server(it has multiple website setup, more than 50 sites ) i could not access the form
http://dev.test.org/surcontest-contest (gives me a 404 error)
how would i access the module, how would i find out about the url to access the form.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance.
1) clean cache to make sure that module installed (check it in admin or database)
2) check that url rewrites enabled and works (can you access some category or product page without index.php ?)
If your default URL is http://www.test.org/ then to access multiple sub domain you should enable from your domain panel by providing host stetting
Hostname=*.test.org, address=, Record Type=A(address)
Also, on your server add sub domain dev.test.org.
It will create dev folder in the public_html folder in file manager.
You should copy index.php and .htaccess file in that follows the magento multiple web site steps see the link
http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/how-to-set-multiple-websites-with-multiple-store-views-in-magento/