Multi-Site Module...

[Gerome]

Yes it is, I think it would be done by adding these lines to the config files respective of your sites...

in site1.sitename.com_config.php:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://site1.sitename.com');

in the file site2.sitename.com_config.php:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://site2.sitename.com');

This means that every single pages of site1 will have an SLL link (not only the secure sections cart, payment, profile...)

I hope this answer your question.

[sassayone]

Can you have different prices on each store? Im doing a retail and a wholesale site

Anyone done it? Thanks!

[ideasgirl]

What's the business reasoning behind this mod? I hear about people asking for this sort of thing now and again and can never understand it. Why would you not want to show your entire product portolio to your customers?

I was responding to Merlin's assertion that specialty shops could charge higher prices.

Relevance is an interesting argument. And clearly it can be done as a price/demographic
segmentation strategy (a la Banana Republic/Gap/Old Navy). It just seems like an
odd strategy for a small net-only business.

Scott

Here's why:

I have a customer that in the same store sells Paintball supplies and Computer supplies. He has an online store with EVERYTHING mixed. If I'm a computer stuff buyer, I don't want to go through hundreds of mixed items of paintball and computer, neither see the specials, featured items, nor new items for that. I just want to buy a computer "thingy".

He does have customers that buy from both sides, and when you go to his store, he has compputers at left, paintball at right; but online is a bit more confusing and specific. The cross cart (1membership/1checkout) thing is great, and less time consuming and more practical to the shop owner, since he only has to go to 1 admin panel to do everything that has to do with his 2 shops.

[ideasgirl]

I'm stuck as how I am supposed to redirect the subdomains.

Here's what I've done:

Installed the ZC on a subdomain called store.
Installed all the files from Multi-Site module and Multi-Site Admin Tools
Created the 2 templates
1-paintball
2-computers

Rename the templates files info

Created the dir config_files in store/includes

Added the include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php'); the the includes/configure.php file

Created the 2 subdomains (.paintball.domain.info & .computers.domain.info)

Now.... WHAT am I supposed to name the config_sites files?
To WHERE am I supposed to redirect the subdomains?
Is the configure.php defines should be pointing to /store/ ? You know, the original file?
WHAT is the correct structure to use for define('DIR_WS_CATALOG' in the config_sites files?

I know, I know.... too many questions, but the instructions (and forums) don't answer any of these.

[wtashby]

This is a Fantastic module!!! Kudos for all your hard work Gerome!

I seem to be missing something though. When I go to your test sites, they all redirect to the same "main" site. Each site you have listed looks exactly alike. Am I missing something here, or is there a little problem with your redirect.

[tracy88]

Hey All. I posted on the other thread but this one seems to be more up to date. My name is Lee and, currently, I have 3 sites up and running on 1 gateway-merchant acct with zen-cart. They are:
Leesgiftshop.com
grammysbag.com
somethingspecialmerchandise.com
They all have their own admin, db, stuff like that, and all are working great. Used different installs for each. My main shop is somethingspecialmerchandise.com. My question is, that when I go to secure pages, I end up with a very long url like this:
https://somethingspecialmerchandise....blahblah--then a long zenid number, . Is there any way to hide parts of this url from showing up on checkout? If not, is no big deal. Everything else is working beautiful.

[david.buckley]

Tracy this is something to do with sessions and how ZenCart is storing them.

If my head is heading in the right direction through the fog. I cannot remember exactly what the story is, but I think that it has something to do with where you store your session information, either in the database or in files....

something like that anyway, I vaugely remember reading something about it in these forums so I suggest a search on sessions.

Hope that this helps a little bit or that someone else watching this thread remembers what the Goodness Gracious I am talking about, Hello Ajeh!!! feel free to stick your nose in here.



DAVE

:)

[tracy88]

Thanks David for answering. Still haven't fixed the prob but still searching these forums!

[david.buckley]

No Probs.

If it comes back to me or I come across the Answer I will let you know.

:)

[Beez]

Isn't that something that can be done with a .htaccess file? I don't know and I haven't tested yet, just thinking out loud here