How To Use Magento Multistore?

Setting up numerous stores that may be accessed on separate URLs for the same Magento installation is the primary usage of the multistore functionality in Magento. Because every store included in the Magento multistore installation is linked to the same backend, management is made simpler.

Installing Magento is required for ultistore; it can be done manually or with Softaculous. Upon installing Magento, you may begin constructing the multistore.

Refer to the steps mention below for adding a new store:

• Login and go to the backend of your Magento installation
• Go to ‘catalogue’ and click on the ‘Add Root Category’ option
• Enter the name of your store
• Select the ‘Yes’ option through the drop down menu of the ‘Is Active’ option
• Click on ‘Display Settings’ and select ‘Yes’ from the drop down menu of the ‘Is Active’ option
• Save the category

Once the category is saved, a new store can be created with the steps mentioned below:

• Go to ‘System’ and click on ‘Manage Stores’
• Click on the ‘Create Website’ option
• Enter the name of your website, example – mywebsite.com and for code we will use the example – mywebsite.
• Save the website
• Create on the ‘Create Store’ button
• Select mywebsite.com for the ‘Website’ and ‘Root Directory’
• Save the store and click on the ‘Create Store View’ option
• Select the new store that you created from the drop down menu (mywebsite.com)
• Select ‘Enabled’ for the store status
• Click on ‘Save the store view’

The last part of completing the store creation is to configure the store settings through your Magento configuration. For that, refer to the steps mentioned below:

• Go to System > Configuration
• Select the store that you created from the ‘Current Configuration Scope’ drop down menu present on the left hand side
• Go to the ‘Web’ tab, uncheck the option – ‘Use Default’ present next to ‘Base URL’
• Change both the ‘Secure’ and ‘Unsecure’ URLs to your domain
• Save the configuration