Magento allows running multiple online stores on different domains from a single Magento installation. This is done by setting up multiple websites, stores, and store views in the Magento admin panel. Products and categories can then be assigned to specific websites. The document provides steps for configuring additional websites, assigning URLs, adding products to each website. This allows selling the same products to different customer groups through different brand websites running on different domains.

1. Magento Exclusive: Running multiple Magento stores on multiple domains from a single index.php - By Younus Sardar tekSymmetry, LLC 18 th Jan,2010

2. What’s Magento ? An open-source ecommerce web application.

3. Popular Open Source eCommerce Software Magento Zen-Cart osCommerce X-Cart Avactis Batavi VirtuMart

4. Why Magento? One install, multiple merchants, multiple websites, multiple shops! Suitable for a small ecommerce site as well as an ecommerce network About all popular payment methods are already integrated (total 11 methods). Customized admin roll management

5. Multiple Images Per Product Product Image Zoom-in Capability Batch Import and Export of catalog Shipping to multiple addresses in one order or multiple shipments per order One-Page Checkout

6. Advantage(Developing view) A perfect MVC approach (using Zend framework) Fully Object Oriented Platform Highly stable, very powerful, and extremely expandable User friendly

7. Disadvantage(Developing view) Due to the Zend/OOP/MVC influence on Magento. A huge folder structure and hundreds of files. It is difficult to follow the code Database depends on EAV ( Entity-Attribute-Value ) model. SQL codes are difficult a little bit! Most complex php application ever found!

8. A Scenario Let’s imagine a merchant who deals with thousands of products. He has 100 stores. He wants to sell his products over 10 different websites. Can we do these with just one Magento install ?

9. Multiple Magento stores on multiple domains from a single install.

10. Setting Up Multiple Websites Step 1: Creating a new folder in the main Magento installation for second website, copying index.php and .htaccess, necessary change of code to index.php

12. Step2: Create a new root category for second website Admin-> Catalog-> Manage Categories -> Add Root Category

13. Step3: 1) Create new website 2) Create store & point to new root category to that store 3) Create store view 1) Create new website Admin -> System -> Manage Stores

14. Admin -> System -> Manage Stores -> Create Website

15. 2) Create Store Admin -> System -> Manage Stores -> Create Store

16. 3) Create Store View Admin -> System -> Manage Stores -> Create Store View

17. Step 4: Configure URL structure for new website Admin -> System -> Configuration

18. We are done for multiple websites Website 1: Digital Store URL : http://localhost/magentostore/index.php

19. Website 2: Shoe Store URL: http://localhost/magentostore/shoestore/index.php

20. Step: 5 Add Categories Add Products 1) Add Categories ( Admin - > Catalog - > Manage Category )

21. 2) Add Product ( Admin - > Catalog - > Manage Product )

22. Select website for the product

23. Now we can have.. Website for Digital Store

24. Website for Shoe Store Website for Shoe Store

25. Adding a new store to a website Step1: Create a new store in Magento store manager and add a root category for the store. Admin-> System-> Manage Stores -> Create New Store

26. Step2: Add an additional store view to the new created store Admin-> System-> Manage Stores -> Create New Store

27. Now we can see the store list in the footer (default). Customers can switch between stores.

28. Thank You! Questions ?