MultiSite Module Support Thread

My primary site https://www.liberty-flag.com is running Magic SEO URL and has quite a hefty .htaccess to redirect to the categories and items.

Is this going the mess up trying to use the Multi Site Module? Or will the resulting additional domains make use of the SEO mod too?

I've been playing with a test installation at http://www.liberty-flag.com/AMERICASFLAG/ and it doesn't seem to be affected, but it's a sub directory, not a domain masquerading in the root folder.

http://www.americasflag.com/ is a domain masquerading in the root folder and it doesn't seem to be affected.
http://www.americasflag.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2 seems to work too.

Maybe I am talking to myself, but your input will certainly be appreciated.
JOhn ><>

What about Google Sitemaps, Google Analytics, Google/Froogle Feeder will these work for each individual domain?

JOhn ><>

Can you tell that I am getting ready to embark on a new adventure in Zen Carting?

What about customized eMail letters, order confirmations and such. How are they handled. Are there separate template files for each domains eMail handling?

If this works, I have literally 30 domains waiting for this.

JOhn ><>

One more question and I'm done for a while.

I have COWOA installed on the primary domain, I would like to try a variety of Checkouts. Can I set up a different checkout process for each template/domain?

JOhn ><>

Long enough?

So I currently have ??25 domains pointing at this document root. Each one currently resolves and will load the index.php, just all of the menu links point at the primary domain. Try it - https://www.americasflag.com

What will happen the moment I install this mod and start modifying files, if I don't have templates set up already for each domain?

Will they default to the primary domain until there is a template and configure file for them?
JOhn ><>

I found another question:
PHP 4 or 5?

New Day, More Questions and YES I did read the last 20 pages of this support thread.

Is there a FAQ for this mod somewhere?

What about banner ads, does each template have to have identical banner regions? Like, I am using the Zen template for my primary site, but the academe template from ichoze uses a full width banner. I would also like to use simple zen and cherry zen on some sites.

Are there individual site setups in the configuration menu?
Does each site have to have exactly the same mods installed?

Am I over thinking this?
JOhn ><>

Hey John,

Yes you are over thinking this. :-)

1.) I have never used Magic SEO before but I imagine it will work fine except for the .htaccess file. You will probably need to duplicate everything for each domain/ subdomain.

2.)Google and such WILL work no doubt.

3.) IT can handle emailing and all that good stuff separately as well.
There is a file called www.yourdomain.com_config.php for each domain you use and within it you can define just about every server configuration available on Zen Cart Multisite comes with a tool to help you with this.
This should answer about 99% of your questions.

4.)If you install it now with out proper configuration each of your pointed domains will say "(your domain ) does not exist" in plain text.

5.)I dont know what php version it uses I think 4 but it works with 5

6.) Same as 3

So Ken ( or anyone who can help), In your opinion what is the best way to handle the SSLs. I really dont want to have an SSL for each site as we will have about 50 sites. Should I consider domains like

site1.domainName.com, site2.domainName.com or is there a way to deal with completely different domains and still keep SSLs down to a minimum?

I have not dived into this yet because I am still uncertain which way to go with the domain names considering the SSL situation.

I am on a VPS with Cpanel and WHM PHP5

Thanks for your advice.

makenoiz

sassayone:

Need to know if you can have different prices for each store before i install..

doing a wholesale/retail store

thanks
Did you ever get an answer on this?

So Ken ( or anyone who can help), In your opinion what is the best way to handle the SSLs. I really dont want to have an SSL for each site as we will have about 50 sites. Should I consider domains like

site1.domainName.com, site2.domainName.com or is there a way to deal with completely different domains and still keep SSLs down to a minimum?Makenoiz. The best solution to this is to use a wildcard SSL certificate. It costs more, but allows you to create as many subdomains as you would like and they will all be protected by the single SSL certificate.

I use Thawte, but there are cheaper solutions and also more expensive (Verisign).

SHokuf. The mod does not allow for different prices on different stores at the moment. I hacked mine up to allow for this, but I have a different situation than most, our pricing is stored in an external system.

cablesimple:

Makenoiz. The best solution to this is to use a wildcard SSL certificate. It costs more, but allows you to create as many subdomains as you would like and they will all be protected by the single SSL certificate.

I use Thawte, but there are cheaper solutions and also more expensive (Verisign).

Sorry. Misread this post. I would certainly suggest subdomains (site1.domainName.com site2.domainName.com) through a wildcard cert. I have this setup with Multisite and it works well. If you do decide to have a different domain on that same Multisite install you can certainly do it, you just need to buy the cert for that store.

The only way I can think you would be able to setup unlimited different domains would be if you set yourself up as a Certificate Authority through one of the recognized CA's, like the cheap CA's do. This would be for a very large company (or a new company selling certs) and, I would imagine, prohibitively expensive.

Well after much deliberation and considering certs are so cheap now a days, Im going to purchase multiple certs.

Thanks for you help cablesimple...!

makenoiz

Is there a way to restrict customers to one domain or the other? I've set up a multisite (great mod btw) with a dealer site and retail site but now I need to keep non-dealers off the dealer site.

is there a way to override a function for the one site and not the other? my thought was to add a field to the customer table (similar to the dual pricing mod) that would be true or false, then run a check for that in this function:

function zen_get_customer_validate_session($customer_id)

any suggestions? is there an easier route I'm overlooking? Maybe the customer validation could redirect to one site on true and the other on false...

ok scratch that, looks like the customer authorization built in will work but I need to make the default status = 1

can anyone point me to the file that inserts the new customer info into the db?

Hi there,

I have just installed the multi-site application as per the instructions, but I am a little lost to be honest..not to mention simple :|

I previously built a website (that still needs tweaking) https://www.enptrading.com on my apache server on my windows pc. I used the template overrides as instructed in the user manual and customised my site, then uploaded it to my host.

Now I have another site to build, plus maintain my existing one, which I plan to do again on my apache server on my personal pc. So I will have:

https://www.enptrading.com
https://www.estimul8.com

I have added the sites into my hosts file. My templates are enp and estim and I believe these are set up in the configure.php files accordingly. The zencart home directory is labelled “store” and both the templates are under this directory.

Why has the formatting disappeared? i.e. All pics/images are not showing, text is all left justified and all colours and style appears to have been lost. (NB: not on my host, but when I look on my development server)

When I look at my enp site, I type in https://www.enptrading.com/store and select the enp template, but, no formatting. I thought my 1st site would still be preserved.

When I work on my estim site, I type in https://www.estimul8.com/store and upon selecting the appropriate template (estim) from the admin section, my site is still lacking formatting.

Something must be working, as the estim site says “congratulations on installing zencart…”, and my enp site has all of the appropriate text that I entered previously, but, alas, not the formatting.

Any leads/tips/advice would be much appreciated, as I have not seen this in the forums yet.

Regards,
EC :dontgetit

no update since 08/08/07

is the developments still running or not ?

if not, maybe somebody else need to take care of it.
any volunteer ?

I notice my http://domainname.com site does not appear correctly since I only have a https://www.domainname.com config file. So does this really mean I need two config files for each site??

www.domainname.com_config.php AND
domainname.com_config.php

Thanks

makenoiz

Makenoiz

You could do that, but really what you should do is add this to your htaccess file

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

then all domainname.com requests go to https://www.domainname.com