PrestaShop 1.6 multistore challenges

[rhwijn]

We have a domain where we have installed PrestaShop called aaa.nl

The PrestaShop installation is configured as multistore.

 

We have four other domains with each domain having their own shop in the multistore setup. These are configured as:

 

domain: bbb.nl installed as shop bbb in virtual folder aaa.nl/bbb

domain: ccc.nl installed as shop ccc in virtual folder aaa.nl/ccc

domain: ddd.nl installed as shop ddd in virtual folder aaa.nl/ddd

domain: eee.nl installed as shop eee in virtual folder aaa.nl/eee

 

The domains are not related and are used to sell different kinds of products.

The domains use a redirect to reference the specific aaa.nl/<virtual folder> 

 

There are also other (country specific) domains like bbb.be that are redirected to aaa.nl/bbb

 

Using this setup we encounter several challenges:

 

sitemaps

a. It's not possible to generate sitemaps for a specific domain (bbb.nl, ccc.nl etc) the sitemap contains aaa.nl/bbb/... url's instead of bbb.nl/... url's. This will result in incorrect indexing by Google

 

b. The generated sitemaps (named under a) are not accepted by Google webmaster tools. Google indicates the sitemap is a HTML document instead of XML

 

Question: how to configure the different webshops correctly so we can generate the right sitemaps

 

Twenga

a. The Twenga module generates an empty feed. We have configured the provided haskey, username and password. We have contacted Twenga but they weren't able to help us.

b. It doesn't seem to be possible to specify for which webshop in the multistore environment the feed has to be generated

 

Question: how to configure PrestaShop and/or the twenga module to generate the correct feeds.

 

Shoppingcart

When accessing the shop through the proper url (i.e. bbb.nl) it is not possible to use SmartCache for CSS. With SmartCache enabled products don't seem to be added to the cart. When refreshing the page the products are in fact added to the cart.

When accessing the shop through the base url (i.e. aaa.nl/bbb) SmartCache functions as expected. However, this is not through the preferred url.

 

Question: can this be solved by changing the configuration?

 

See the attachment for an example of one of the webshop configurations:

 

aaa.nl stands for losq-fashion.nl

bbb.nl stands for losq-fashionnl/babyboetiek

 

 

I hope that our questions can be answered...

Edited June 4, 2014 by rhwijn (see edit history)