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4 Feb 2008, 4:25 PM
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domain and hosting question

for my website www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk i have 2 other domains addresses www.frontlinebathroom.co.uk and www.romanshowersonline.co.uk

i have added these other to domains as parked domains on my server and open the site front page section of my site as normal using the new domain, oviously only untill you use the store and rubberduck takes over due to the way zen-cart has urls coded into it.

what im wondering is there a way in which i can make the domain name ie www.frontlinebathroom.co.uk go to a page set with all the info about frontline products and quality etc??? i dont want to use a forwarder to forward to a page inside rubberduck as this makes no help to google listings.

any one point me in the right direction?? i have the abilit to make add on, and sub domains on my server as well as parked domains


4 Feb 2008, 4:56 PM
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Re: domain and hosting question

Do you want separate Zen Carts for each or do you want all of them to feed off the same database?

If you want separate index pages for all of them, make the new ones addon/subdomains, not parked. Parked domains point to your existing domain. If you make https://www.frontlinebathroom.co.uk a addon/subdomain, you'll get a folder just for https://www.frontlinebathroom.co.uk and you can create specific pages for it. When the customer goes to https://www.frontlinebathroom.co.uk, they'll see the specific pages from the folder. You can always link to your exisiting Zen Cart from there or use the folder to create a separate Zen Cart.

You could also consider the MultiSite module.

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4 Feb 2008, 5:03 PM
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Re: domain and hosting question

its not multiple store online one store. basically my zencart is store is a seporite folder on my server ie https://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store

i have small front page site that is an entrance page kinda thing to my store.

whan im wanting is the store where people can buy items which is running and making money but i want to add 2 more domains i own. these domains what to link to a page on my front site. ie the frontline domain go to a page that has front line information on it.

is there a code i can add to the index page like if domin=frontline goto frontline.co.uk/frontline.php or if romaindomain goto romanshowersonline.co.uk/romanshower.php etc etc etc??


4 Feb 2008, 5:39 PM
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Re: domain and hosting question

  1. Create the other domains as addon/subdomains, not parked domains. This will create a separate folder for each domain.

  2. In the new folder(s), create an index.php page like the one at http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/ with the exact same link to the Zen Cart (where it says "Enter our online store").

I believe you can do something similar using the MultiSite module since all the "stores" will work from the same database. I haven't used it myself, so I can't swear to that.

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5 Feb 2008, 11:14 AM
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Re: domain and hosting question

i talked to my hosts, who are great BTW (you know who you are) and they said do the same, add subdomains and copy the sites over to the new folder just with extra changes.