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i want to setup a multi store magento. Currently i have www.domain1.com and i want the new store to be on www.domain1.com/outlet/

This way i can use the same SSL certificate for both stores.

When i set this up in magento, and change the base url's i get a 404 error on www.domain1.com/outlet/

What am i missing?

I have magento 1.7.0.2 CE.

UPDATE 10-12-2013 This helped me a lot ... but i have got an extension the runs on www.domain1.com/facebookstore/ but www.domain1.com/outlet/facebookstore/ doesn't work ...

Am i missing something again?

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  • Did you manage to resolve your issue?
    – Sander Mangel
    Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 13:39
  • Not yet, see my update
    – Ronny
    Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 18:04
  • so this is just for that one extension?
    – Sander Mangel
    Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 18:11
  • already fixed it ... I was forgotten to copy the right files to the theme!
    – Ronny
    Commented Dec 11, 2013 at 7:44

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The 404 is caused because there is no url starting with outlet in Magento so it doesn't know the route. Basically you're telling Magento that the whole store is in a subdirectory. In this case there are 3 options in my opinion

Add storecode to URL The most basic option is to be found under System > Configuration > Web called the option Add storecode to url. In this case make sure your shops storecode is outlet and turn this option on. The drawback is however that this will also affect the existing stores adding the storecode to that one's urls as well

Create a subdirectory You will need to create a subdirectory in your Magento installations root called outlet and copy the index.php in there. Also create symlinks for the media, js and skins directory and add an .htaccess (you can copy that one from the root)

Work with subdomains Since a (most?) SSL certificate covers the whole TLD you can work with subdomains. In this case that would be outlet.domain.com. Just add this to you apache config and set the new storeviews base domain to that URL

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  • Wouldn't outlet.domain.com only be covered with a wildcard ssl certificate? Most certificates I have seen mention only cover for www.domain.com or domain.com if not explicitly bought for another subdomain
    – Kristof at Fooman
    Commented Dec 9, 2013 at 2:16
  • You might be right, the certificates we use always cover all domains but then again I'm not the one that installs them :)
    – Sander Mangel
    Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 13:38
  • my ssl certificate only covers the main domain (and www.) not extra subdomains.
    – Ronny
    Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 18:02

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