Running Magento 2 on a subdomain of Magento 1.9

Question

I did a fair amount of research before posting this question to ensure I am not asking a repeated question. I am newbie to Magento, and I would like to get your advice on the below workflow:

I have a Magento 1.9 Installed on www.samplestore.com (it's a small store), and right now, I am thinking to open samplestore.com for another country market. (let's say France)

I understand Magento supports multiple stores, However, I want to use this as an opportunity to discover Magento 2.0, instead of sticking with 1.9.

Thus, we are thinking to install, Magento 2.0 on a subdomain. (Example: samplestore.com/FR/) and keep Magento 1.9 on the main store.

I know by doing this, all the customers and orders, and sales will be isolated from the main store, however, my questions are:

Does the above scenario makes any sense to implement?

How can I redirect all the terrific from France to /FR/ subdomain automatically? (Is it something that has to be handled at the server level and not Magento Level?)

Answer 1

Just to clarify the difference between subdomain and language as paramater:

• Subdomain - fr.samplestore.com
• Language/Parameter - samplestore.com/fr

I would recommend using the subdomain approach with having

• Magento 1 on samplestore.com and
• Magento 2 on fr.samplestore.com

and setting up two different vhosts (in Apache or Nginx). To make sure all traffic coming from France is handled by your fr.samplestore.com domain is something that cannot be handled by Magento. For that I recommend you make yourself comfortable with Geo IP and redirection on web server level (see http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/mod_geoip2/).

Answer 2

very bad idea. better way is:

1. migrate to Magento 2
2. buy samplestore.fr
3. configure DNS and store view code
4. profit!

This way you will keep everything in sync and easy to manage.