Magento – the ‘best practise’ to manage Multilingual stores in Magento

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In Magento, multilingual sites are managed with store views, then we can choose different approach regarding how to manage the URLs:

"Add Store Code to URLs" (a backend setting)
Have different domain for each store views (Multi-Site, Multi-Domain Setup)

The first option will add store code at the end of the URL so if the code is en, the URL will be MYDOMAIN/en/.

This option sounds good but the note under it says:
"Warning! When using Store Code in URLs, in some cases system may not work properly if URLs without Store Codes are specified in the third party services (e.g. PayPal etc.)."

Is it safe ?

The second option is only possible if you have more than one domain and let you assign the domain to store views.

My question is what are the best practices?

There are other better solutions?

Best Answer

There is a third solution: Neither use the first nor the second. Then the storeview is only reachable via manual change and will be saved in a cookie/session.

I think your options are best practice. Without the possibility to identify the storeview by the url, it is not possible to copy and paste urls and end on the same page as your friend.

And in the end, the customer decides what fits best for him.

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The reason why that worked, is because Magento internals will use the current store id on Mage::getModel('catalog/product').

You could have used Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->setStoreId('STORE_ID');

Magento – Magento 2 Multistore is not working with multi domain

I had the very same problem with MAGENTO 2.1.7 . After reading thousands (literally) of blogs, tutorials and websites I figured it out by sticking a few lines of code.

1 : Do not touch the .HTACCESS file. There's nothing to modify in there.

2 : Open INDEX.PHP and replace the following code

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

by this code :

$params = $_SERVER;

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) {

        case 'Domain1.com':
        case 'www.Domain1.com':
             $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_CODE] = 'Website_code1';
                         $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_TYPE] = 'website';
        break;


        case 'Domain2.com':
        case 'www.Domain2.com':
             $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_CODE] = 'Website_code2';
                         $params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_TYPE] = 'website';
        break;
    }

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

There's 4 things to replace in the above code.

domain1.com and www.domain1.com = Your domain name for the first store (Should be the BASE store).
Website_code1 = Website code for the first store.
domain2.com and www.domain2.com = Your domain name for the second store
Website_code2 = Website code for the second store.

Best Answer

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