Magento – Magento 2: Different stores with different customers, products and admin accounts

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I have a website that has multiple sub-domains. The sub-domains are all connected to the same files but have been styled differently depending on the sub-domain. I would like each sub-domain to have their own store with their own products and customer. Each store would have to have a global admin account that would allow the admin to access all stores but then each sub-domain store would need to have their own admin account where this admin only has access to that one store and can only manage and upload products to that store. All the stores would have that same layout but styled differently (i.e. color and logos would be different)

I would like to know if this is possible and if so what store structure would I use and how can I achieve this?

I am using Magento community version 2.1.3

Best Answer

Here's a suggestion on how you could structure your site:

1 website per subdomain
1 custom theme/styling per website
global admin user create for each store
admin user for each store, with permissions only to that store
products are scoped/loaded per store - easiest to just have the store admin manage products
Out of the box; customers are unique to website so nothing to do here.

You'll likely need to tune your mysql.cnf (tmp_table setting) for indexers to run properly if you have a lot of websites.

How many websites are you planning on having? How many sku's per website?

-Chuck

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Multistore – How to Use Different Hosting Accounts for One Magento Engine

Using the multistore setup for Magento will allow you to run more frontends using the same codebase. First step would be defining the storeviews. Then you can define env variables via htaccess/httpd.conf so Magento can serve the right content based on the accessed domain:

SetEnvIf Host .*site.* MAGE_RUN_CODE=storex

This would be your starting point. For a while, you may be able to handle all the load using a single frontend. If you find that you need more, there are a few steps you need to take:

Have a distributed cache backend, so all servers share the same cache. Memcache works great, there are a lot of tutorials on how to install Memcache and make it work with Magento
Share the media files. You will have to share the media/ and var/ directories between all servers. I'd recommend using NFS, but there are many more ways to do this.
Have a way to deploy the code. Since you want to make sure the code is the same on all servers, you'd have to do better than manually upload the code to all servers. A simple script to grab the code from the repository will do, but you can use third party services too. I personally am very happy with Beanstalk as a code deployment solution. Of course, you could just share all the root directory with NFS too.
Have a load balancer. If you have multiple servers, you'd need to split the traffic between them. Again, a lot of options here. You can use third party services or do it yourself with something like pound.

The main point here is that you should start low. No point in having a server per frontend. You can start with 2 servers (so you have the multi-server setup in place) then scale based on traffic.

A more painful thing todo would be database scaling. You can easily spread frontend load as described, but they would still hit the same database. You can create a mysql master-slave setup and configure Magento to spread the reads. I'd recommend buying/renting the best hardware you can afford first though, it is way cheaper to scale the database vertically than horizontally.

Magento – Sharing Sessions Between Stores with Different Domains

You can share frontend cookie between magento website with different domains using that solution ainixon.me/set-cookie-on-cross-domains.

You need to create cookies.php file with the following code

<?php
    setcookie("frontend", htmlspecialchars($_GET['SID']), time() + 86400);
?>

and in magento template you will need to add following code after the <body> tag

<?php 
$this_session_id = Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'))->getSessionId(); 
?>
<!-- setting cookies to other domains --> 
<img src="http://anotherdomain.com/cookies.php?SID=<?php echo $this_session_id; ?>" style="display:none;" />
<img src="http://somedomain.ne/cookies.php?SID=<?php echo $this_session_id; ?>" style="display:none;" /> 
<!-- setting cookies to others domains ends -->

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