Magento 2 – Multi Domain & Multi Website Setup

You can create multiple websites or store views in Magento 2 admin panel and map unique domains to each of them.

Step 1: Point all domains to pub in Magento's root directory

Step 2: Configure domain names as base URLs for each website in System Configuration in Magento admin panel.

Step 3: Set store or website for each domain as environment variable in .htaccess of pub directory or in the webserver configuration.

• Example with the websites as given in the question:

  SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE website
  SetEnvIf Host abc\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=domain1
  SetEnvIf Host xyz\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=domain2
  

• Example with store views instead of websites

  SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE store
  SetEnvIf Host abc\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=store_code_1
  SetEnvIf Host xyz\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=store_code_2
  

  These configurations check if the domain contains "abc.com" or "xyz.com", which I find useful to also match subdomains or test systems like abc.com.testserver.com or test.abc.com, using the same .htaccess file. If you want exact matching, replace abc\.com with ^abc\.com$

Step 4: Clear cache and access your domains.

Follow this and comment for any issue:

1. Verify your desired domain name points to the server.
2. Create a secondary domain for your new store.
3. Using either FTP or SSH, copy the .htaccess and index.php files from your Magento installation to the document root of your new domain.
4. Open the index.php file that you just copied and edit the last lines of the file as follows:

Attention: Change newstore to the code that you wrote down when you created the new website above.

Replace:

$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
/** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */
$app = bootstrap->createApplication('Magento\Framework\App\Http');
$bootstrap->run($app);

With:

require __DIR__ . '/app/bootstrap.php'; $params = $_SERVER; $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_CODE] = 'newstore'; $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_TYPE] = 'website'; $bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $params); /** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */ $app = $bootstrap->createApplication('Magento\Framework\App\Http'); $bootstrap->run($app);

5. Using SSH, create the following symbolic links in the document root of your new domain, and replace the path below with the full path to the document root of your Magento Installation:

ln -s /home/example/example.com/html/app/ app

ln -s /home/example/example.com/html/lib/ lib

ln -s /home/example/example.com/html/pub/ pub

ln -s /home/example/example.com/html/var/ var

Update in Your case:

Replace ln -s /home/example/example.com/html/app/ app with ln -s /var/www/html/m2/example.com/app/ app