Multiple stores - home page ok, but category and cms pages 404

Question

I am adding another store to an existing Magento install: main-store.com works fine and I am adding main-store.com/nested-store. (There is currently a holding page at nested-store.com, which I will redirect to main-store.com/nested-store when it is ready to go live.)

I have created a new website, store and store view in Magento for nested-store. I have created a new root category and sub categories for nested-store. I have updated the base url for the new store to be main-store.com/nested-store. All other urls use {{unsecure_base_url}}, {{unsecure_base_url}}/skin etc.

The problem I have is that the homepage of main-store.com/nested-store looks fine, but when I click on any links, e.g. main-store.com.nested-store/shop (which is my root category for this store) or main-store.com.nested-store/about, I see the 404 page for main-store.com.

I have created the category hierarchy and added lots of cms pages, all of which I cannot access at the moment. When I try to preview the about page (main-store.com/nested-store/about/?___store=nested-store), I also see the 404.

Why is the nested store linking to only pages in the main store?

Answer 1

My first guess is, that magento can't see, that you are surfing on your new store, instead of your old store under the category nested-store/about. Therefore the first thing you have to check is, whether magento uses the right storeview here.

If this is not the case, then you should add a vhost configuration wich sets the right website/storeview, like this:

SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE {storecode}
SetEnvIf Host www\.domain2\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE={storecode}

or

SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE {websitecode}
SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE website

If this is the case, the only idea I have is to dig into the routing with xdebug or any other debugger of your choice and check what happens inside.

And a side note: Having a store in a subdirectory of another store might count as "a bad idea" :-)