magento-1.8multistore
Is it possible to make one installation, and from this installation to make multiple shops with different databases?
Something like I will make one installation on domain.1 with a database, and from admin I will crate a new website and a store on some new database for domain.2.
I know that multiple stores can be achieved with one database. But can it be the same with different databases.
You will not be forced to store 1 when pressing checkout on store 2 or 3, unless you write some code telling Magento to do so.
Also when doing a checkout process on any store you will get the look and feel of that specific store.
You can take a look at the magento demo. Add a product to the cart, do a checkout, then switch the store from the bottom switcher (to modern theme for example) and repeat the process.
You can change the scope of your configuration in the upper left. There you can choose the store, then you can configure the different shipping methods for the different store views. If this is not possible, because the scope is website, you have two possibilites:
Best Answer
Great answer slarek. We did something very similar. Instead of editing index.php we setup separate folders outside of magento's codebase, and include mage.php from those folders, and then edit the etc_dir (and other dirs) like in your method above.
folder structure:
/www/client1
/www/client2
/www/client3
/www/clientX
/www/magento
Inside each of the client folders are:
in /www/clientx/index.php
define('MAGENTO_ROOT', '/www/magento');...(rest of index.php is business as usual)...
$client = isset($_SERVER['CLIENT_ID']) ? $_SERVER['CLIENT_ID'] : '';] Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType, array('etc_dir'=>'../'.$client));We set