5 sites manage by one prestashop

[natebc]

Hello,

 

I think I read some thing mouths ago, that you can manage multiple sites under one prestashop. I that's right, can some one please help show me how?

 

Thanks

Nate

[vekia]

Yes, this feature is called multistore

 

you can read more about multisotre feature here: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Managing+multiple+shops

[natebc]

Yes, this feature is called multistore

 

you can read more about multisotre feature here: http://doc.prestasho...+multiple+shops

 

Hi vekia,

 

Thanks for the help. Is there any place where I can find "How to setup the sites". Also do you or any one know if I Can set up each site in there own sub-folder?

[Valérie Assetskaya]

Hello,

 

Please, view our article about multistore - http://blog.belvg.com/how-prestashop-supports-multistores-in-1-5.html

 

Best regards.

[vekia]

Two shops cannot share the same URL. If you try to give a new shop a URL that is already in use by another shop, PrestaShop will display an error.

On the other hand, you can have as many shops on one domain name as you want: http://www.myprestashop.com/men/, http://www.myprestashop.com/women/,http://www.myprestashop.com/kids/, http://www.myprestashop.com/pets/, etc.

 

so as you can see you can create separate shops in different sub-directories. guide that i attached above shows how to configure it

[treasuresangel]

Sorry to butt in, but I'm not getting this to work. Can someone explain the difference between "add new shop group" and "add new shop"? Do you have to do both to get it working? I tried to add both but just kept getting the 404 not found. Please help, it's been days since I tried to do this, and I'm no further along.

Edited May 6, 2013 by treasuresangel (see edit history)

[vekia]

well, i can say how I configure it usually.

 

No matter how many shops i want to handle, i always create one group. Then I creating separate shops and im attaching in to that group

[treasuresangel]

I think I might have gotten it, I added a new shop group and a new shop and a virtual url. It's at least not showing a 404. I'm making progress, I think

[treasuresangel]

adding virtual url fixed my problem.

[natebc]

Hello,

 

This is how I was going to set it up. I'm using VPS.

 

www.xx1.com in sub-folder (xx1) ip.address xxx.xxx.xxx.01

www.xx2.com in sub-folder (xx2) ip.address xxx.xxx.xxx.02

www.xx3.com in sub-folder (xx3) ip.address xxx.xxx.xxx.03

www.xx4.com in sub-folder (xx4) ip.address xxx.xxx.xxx.04.

 

Do I need to place prestashop in each sub-folder and if there any blogs or post on how to do this?

 

Thanks

Nate

[Trip]

For Multishop you have one PS installation and direct the different domains to that folder. You don't need different ip's and don't need to (can not) install it in different folders. As the multishop part is relative new but complex I recommend you to make a local installation on a test server to find out howto setup virtual hosts and how the stuff works and after all that the result is what you expect.

The basics in the apache conf look like that:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName myshop.com 
 DocumentRoot "/var/www/prestashop"
 DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName mysecond_shop.com
 DocumentRoot "/var/www/prestashop"
 DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

It is definetly no good idea to test that on a live server untill you really understand and tested everything. As I said, the configuration possibiliities are huge and some parts are from my personal feeling not finished yet. When your, I call it inititial setup (assigning products categories etc.pp. to different shop instances) is not well thought you might really get into problems cleaning up the mess when you chose the wrong way.

All the best, trip