Need Advice On Multiple Domains

[pjr710]

Hey guys so I have 17k products, I need to create 3 stores each on 3 domains.

Store 1 will have all products, store 2 will have all products at a lower price, and store 3 will only have 8k products.

My confusion lies in how to set up multiple domains. How do I point a domain to a store? Will all my domains share the same IP?

I couldn't find much info on this. Please let me know!

[pjr710]

Store 1 will have all products, store 2 will have all products at a lower price, and store 3 will only have 8k products.

My confusion lies in how to set up multiple domains. How do I point a domain to a store? Will all my domains share the same IP?

I couldn't find much info on this. Please let me know!

[Sunil Patel]

Hello,

you need to create three website under same admin of magento.

you can assign product website wise and also you can manage price per website also

[protechacurtis]

Can each of the sites share a theme/template and still have separate configurations for each site? I'm trying to figure out if I need to purchase one theme or one for each domain name we run.

[Sunil Patel]

@protechacurtis

yes you can use same theme or you can customize theme per domain wise also.

[Sunil Patel]

@protechacurtis

yes you can use same theme or you can customize theme per domain wise also.

[pjr710]

@Sunil Patel I know what I need to do on the admin side.

But I get confused on what I need to do in my files. Some places say I need to update my index.php, some say I need to edit my .htaccess and index.php.

I am also unclear on the domains themselves. Will they all point to the same IP address?

If that's the case, what do I do about SSLs? Can each domain have it's own SSL?

[Sunil Patel]

@pjr710

Let's example your site localation is /var/www/html

inside you need to create one folder for website 2 e.g site1 inside that you need to copy index.php and .htaccess file.

for site 1 domain you need to link to /var/www/html/site1 

same for site 2. 

for ssl i think it is different per domain, you need to ask to hosting provider.