One website with different store views on different domains

Question

I found some solutions but none complete or working for me.
So I have a main website, let's call it www.main1.com that has different views translated in different languages: german, italian and english.

What I would like is to redirect the german domain www.germandomain.com to the german view from www.main1.com.

Also I want to keep the views under one website so that the flags can appear in the header.

Answer 1

If you just want a redirect, configure the redirect to go to

www.main1.com?___store=1

where 1 is the id of the German store view.

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If you want the store view to run on the different domain (not just a redirect), you have to:

• point all domains to the Magento document root
• configure the base urls per store view

• set the environment variable MAGE_RUN_CODE dependent on the host name.

  Example .htaccess configuration:

  SetEnv MAGE_RUN_TYPE store
  SetEnvIf Host germandomain\.com MAGE_RUN_CODE=german
  

  where german is the store code of the German store view.

• configure "Use SID" to "Yes" if the user session should work across domains.