another option is to use a subdomain per store. Then you just setup Apache to tell magento which "website/store" to use.

This way you can have multiple "stores" and "views" under the subdomain websites all in the same magento intall.

• settings are in System>Configuration>General/Web
• Unsecure . Base URL
• Secure . Base URL
• Cookie . Domain

this is the example.com store Apache config

<VirtualHost *:80>
    AllowEncodedSlashes On

    ServerName example.com
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    <Directory "/var/www/html/" >
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "default"
    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE "Website"
</VirtualHost>

#this is the additional "ca" store Apache config <VirtualHost *:80> AllowEncodedSlashes On

    ServerName ca.example.com
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    <Directory "/var/www/html/" >
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "ca"
    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE "Website"
</VirtualHost>

another option is to use a subdomain per store. Then you just setup Apache to tell magento which "website/store" to use.

This way you can have multiple "stores" and "views" under the subdomain websites all in the same magento intall.

• settings are in System>Configuration>General/Web
• Unsecure . Base URL
• Secure . Base URL
• Cookie . Domain

this is the example.com store Apache config

<VirtualHost *:80>
    AllowEncodedSlashes On

    ServerName example.com
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    <Directory "/var/www/html/" >
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "default"
    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE "Website"
</VirtualHost>

this is the additional "ca" store Apache config

<VirtualHost *:80>
    AllowEncodedSlashes On

    ServerName ca.example.com
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    <Directory "/var/www/html/" >
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "ca"
    SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE "Website"
</VirtualHost>