I am not sure if my question is suitable here. If not, forgive me.
Magento supports multi-websites on a single installation. Let's say that I'd like to make e-commerce websites for fashion industry merchants. I would install an e-commerce solution for each merchant. However, since Magento supports multiple websites on a single installation, can I just install a single Magento to support all the merchants? Each merchant has a domain and they don't share any information each other.
Or should I install a Magento for each merchant?
Thanks.
Sam
Yes, it is possible to support multiple Magento stores on one hosting account. If your hosting account allows parked domains, then it is possible to use one IP address to secure all the sites using a Unified Communications (UC) or multi-domain SSL certificate available from most vendors. Some of these certificates may support up to 100 unique domain names.
There are still other issues regarding performance that you should consider.
Depending on what you want to do this is doable. I was actually searching for a similar thing and found this resource:
Magento KB: How Multiple Websites & Stores Work
It is thus possible to have different web sites (with different domains) or a single web site with different store fronts.
I also found this explanation from the point of view of a hosting service on how to add two domains to a single Magento installation. Please note that this is specific for this service but you get the idea and the steps inside Magento should be roughly the same:
How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores
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I am using shared hosting.
My site was showing "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED".
So i went to see visitors to my (SSL) site.
I found that instead of regular names in the "User Agent" list,
cpanel visitors list is showing
user agent Expanse indexes the network perimeters of our customers. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to: scaninfo#example.com"
I want to know whether this is harmful and if yes,
How to avoid such unknown user agents?
Is there something i should do with ".htaccess" file?
Once again, i am using shared hosting (so, i have limited accessibility).
The ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED you saw when accessing your website had nothing to do with the visitor you saw in cpanel. You might have had a different issue with your server configuration/shared hosting provider.
That "visitor" was an internet crawler, most likely from Palo Alto Networks, who owns Expanse. Long story short, it shouldn't cause any harm. They say that their crawlers are used to index/categorize URLs around the internet and/or to spot malicious content.
I advise you to ignore it, since there's not much you can do - I assume they have some ranges of IPs for their crawlers so you wouldn't be able to blacklist all of them anyway.
Currently I have an informational site running on .net and would like to addon ecommerce functionality via shopify. Is it possible to have a site split between two hosted locations/languages but tied together under a single domain?
so it would be wwww.domain.com/store/ instead of store.domain.com
One approach would be to use something like nginx or varnish and set backends to the various routes on your site thus merging them together to give the impression that it is all one site.
The issue you may face however would that sessions would not be shared so you'd have problems to have a cart icon with a count of items etc across the entire site.
I want to set up Multiple Wordpress Installations on a Single Domain name. I need a wordpress installation for my webdeveloper website, and other installations for developing customer websites. After development I would have to move these new websites to client server. Technical staff of my web hosting company suggested two possibilities:
1)development.domainame.com (create a subdomain for additional wordpress installation)
2)domainame.com/development (use subfolder for additional wordpress installation
They recommended to use solution 1). May I know the pro and con of each solution ? And would be a best practise ? Thx in advance
PS: I cant use multisite, not suited for my case
Your web host's technical staff is correct. You have 2 options:
Use Subdomains. ex: sub1.mydomain.com vs sub2.mydomain.com
Use Subfolders. ex: mydomain.com/folder1 vs mydomain.com/folder2
The benefit of using subdomains is that the "environments" are separated. The two websites will act like they are entirely different websites, making it easier to migrate the clients site in the future.
The benefit of using subfolders is that it's easier to "switch in between the sites". You could access all the files using the same FTP login.
I would suggest the use of subdomains. It separates the sites into 2 clearly different sites, will make it easier to restrict client/user access by-subdomain, and will decrease the chances that making a change to one site would affect the other (for example, if you have 2 wordpress sites as subfolders, it would be much easier to accidentally edit or change the wrong mysql database table)
i would like to setup multiple stores or websites that each store will have its unique items and checkout seperate from others.
is there a new method for doing this .. i watched many tutorials and articles about this but it was written long time ago and most of was for multiple domains.
i can use subdomains and subdirectory structure.
but know that i am currently on shared godaddy hosting account with no virtual private dedicated server and thats important because i read that if this is the case maybe i can not have multiple stores from first place.
i am using magento ver 1.7
example:
store
www.store.com
store1
store1.store.com
store2
store2.store.com
store, store1 and store 2 has different items and checkouts but on single domain
thanks for your time
You can setup subdomains on your hosting account with Go Daddy. The main domain and each subdomain can have different content, such as a Magento store. Magento can run on Go Daddy's Linux shared hosting; however, we do warn that shared hosting will not give optimal user experience for Magento. We recommend a virtual dedicated or dedicated server.
A client of mine is running an ecommerce store on godaddy shared hosting.
They are trying to pass pci compliance and the only issue is the default apache icons folder by allowing it to be indexed.
This folder is NOT in my web root. So I don't have access to it.
I've tried htaccess rewrites, but it's not working.
Anyone know of any other solutions?
I am sorry but Go Daddy shared hosting is not PCI Complaint. You can review the last part of this page to verify that: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4265/quick-shopping-cart-pci-compliance-faq?locale=en
turns out the scan is not required at level 4 with the amount of annual sales this client processes. So, we opted to leave it as-is.