Magento 1.9 – Fix Multiple Domains, Store Views, Redirect and Cookies Problem

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I have a website with 2 store views and different domains assigned to them through System > Web > Unsecure/Secure > Base URL (default one with en code at http://tea-and-coffee.tk/ and additional with ru code at http://teaandcoffeeuk.tk/).

I can switch between them with default language switcher in header and everything works fine except one thing. When I go to incognito mode in my browser and open any page at ru store view like http://teaandcoffeeuk.tk/tea.html, it always redirects me to an index page of default store – http://tea-and-coffee.tk/.

After I manually switch to ru store view through language switcher, links start working fine, so my guess is that different stores require some cookies set in my browser. Can anybody help me?

Best Answer

After doing some research I've managed to solve it with adding the following code to index.php just before Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

switch ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) {
    case 'tea-and-coffee.tk':
        $mageRunCode = 'en';
        $mageRunType = 'store';
        break;
    case 'teaandcoffeeuk.tk':
        $mageRunCode = 'ru';
        $mageRunType = 'store';
        break;
    default:
        $mageRunCode = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE'] : '';
        $mageRunType = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE'] : 'store';
        break;
}

This way magento resolves required store by hostname automatically. Everything is working flawlessly so far.

Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – Multiple Domains, Multiple Store Views, and Redirects

A simple rewrite will address that.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301]

CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

If you wanted this as a feature you can write a module, and observe the save product event and loop through all the stores and either:

condition based looking for "english" if they are named like that
hardcode the id's
provide a configuration option in the admin to select the english stores.
add an attribute to the store object

Another way to do it as a one off:

<?php

require '../app/Mage.php';

$englishStore = 1; // English Store (the one you want to copy from)
$attribute = "short_description"; // Attribute to copy

foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {
    foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {
        $stores = $group->getStores();
        foreach ($stores as $store) {
            //store object
            //print_r($store->getData());

            // if english found in name or change this so it's hardcoded store id's
            if (strstr($store->getData('name'),"english")) {

                $StoreToUpdateCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
                    ->addAttributeToFilter('store_id', $store->getData('store_id'));

                foreach ($StoreToUpdateCollection as $product) {

                    // get the description from the base English store
                    $englishProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->setStoreId($englishStore)->loadByAttribute('sku', $product->getData('sku'));
                    $newValue = $englishProduct->getData($attribute);

                    // update the attributes for the current store for the product ID
                    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_action')->updateAttributes(
                        array($product->getData('id')),
                        array($attribute => $newValue),
                        $store->getData('store_id')
                    );
                }


            }


        }
    }
}

I have not tested the updating part, would suggest trying this on a dev version.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – Multiple Domains, Multiple Store Views, and Redirects

CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

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