1.9.3.8 Multistore loading wrong website code

Question

I have a 1.9.3.8 multistore set up at a temporary domain, with several websites set up within the multistore. These websites broken up by brick and mortar location, for what it's worth.

The homepage of the default website is a typical homepage with a banner and whatnot. But the homepage for any location is the root category with layered navigation (using amasty's plugin for this. We are also using cart2quote, but I doubt that's causing the issue. In any case, I have disabled these plugins temporarily, and the problem I'm having remains.)

The problem is that when I load one of the locations, the homepage is the original default home page! I did some digging into that: The $mageRunCode and $mageRunType are both being set properly in the index.php file. However, when I check Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getName(), the value is the default website! This means that all my config values are pointing to the wrong scope! Why would this happen?! I'm flabbergasted. Anyone ever experienced this? Am I missing something?

Answer 1

1. For the multiple website config, Add the code bellow in your index.php right before Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

   switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) {
       case 'domain1.com':
       case 'www.domain1.com':
           $mageRunCode = 'domain1_com';
           $mageRunType = 'website';
       break;
       case 'domain2.com':
       case 'www.domain2.com':
           $mageRunCode = 'domain2_com';
           $mageRunType = 'website';
       break;
   }
   

   Don't forget to point your domaine urls in your Vhost.

2. For the homepage, you can can config the homepage per website in : System > Configuration > General > Web > Default Page.

3. Clean the cache.