Prestashop Multistore, very confusing and not working :(

[Sergio L]

Hello, 

most probably I'm the culprit, but I've seen a lot of threads with people struggling to make it work. I come from Cs-Cart and I'm trying to switch to Prestashop.

So, I've abilitated the the multistore, set a second store on a physical directory /us/ , but it's not working.

With the physical directory I shouldn't need the rewrite rule, correct? 

The first time I set it up I was able to show only the website, but the HTML was very confused because the CSS weren't loading.

Then I added the folder /us/ (for US store) and now the shops says "403 , Forbidden, Access to this resource on the server is denied!" . The directory is anyway empty. Can you please help me clarify a bit things here? 

 

[Knowband Plugins]

To resolve the "403 Forbidden" error in your PrestaShop multistore setup:

1. Check Permissions: Ensure `/us/` directory has `755` for folders and `644` for files.
2. Enable Rewrite Rules: Ensure mod_rewrite is enabled and `.htaccess` is properly configured.
3. Correct URL Setup: In Multistore, ensure the base URI for the second store is `/us/`.
4. Regenerate .htaccess: Regenerate it by disabling/enabling friendly URLs in SEO & URLs.

This should fix the issues.

[Sergio L]

Thank you Knowband, I thought it was something like that, but I didn't want to mess with the server settings.

In top of that I had problems with the template and the blog module, since I modified that after I split the stores. I also heard of people having problems with modules if installed before or after the division to multistore.

I decided at the moment to go with one store, eventually multilanguage, multiwarehouse, with localization and geo-redirection.