Okay so I tried to create a multistore magento setup on a single domein using subfolders.

The internet is stuffed with posts and topics about this. After a long while I figured out what worked for me. I hope this can help anyone having the same issue’s as me.

First, what am I using?

- Magento 1.5.0.1

- Xampp v1.8

What do I want to do ?

Create several stores in subfolders of the main magento store. That are all separate from eachother, skin, products, customers.

How did I do this?

I assume you have a magento install running on your server, or xampp so I won’t go into that. Aswell as have the knownledge to organize products.

There are 5 main steps to complete this:

1. Create stores/views/sites

2. Create categories & add products

3. Set default URL (safe/unsafe) and Homepage.

4. Create subfolders and files

5. Edit index.php in each subfolder

1. Create stores/views/sites

Goto >system> configuration > manage stores

Add a new Website for each subfolder store you want, after the website make a store and a store view for the subfolder store.

So it looks mywebsite > mystore > mystoreview, and remember the “Code” you enter we will need it later on.

2. Create categories & add products

Goto>Catalogue>Manage categories

Add a new root category for each of your subfolder stores, enable it, and set it to Anchor>Yes

Now you can create another sub category which will contain the products shown ONLY to visitors of that subfolder store.

But, to make the products visible you will first need to change your storeview before we can add products to the category.

So change the storeview in the left column and add products to your category

Note: For the products to become usable in the category list they need to be set to the correct store view aswell. This can be done by updating the products attributes in Catalogue>Manage products>update attributes>Websites

3. Set default URL (safe/unsafe) and Homepage.

Goto>System>Configuration>Web

Change Secure and insecure for each scope so it looks like this. NOTE that the skin,media and js url do not have the sub folder reference. Keep it that way !

Change the CMS Homepage in defaultpages, or goto>CMS>Homepage and change the scope of an already existing page, so we can use it on this view.

If you do not do this you will get a “There was no Home CMS page configured or found”

4. Create subfolders and files

Browse to the homefolder of your magento installation. Create new folders that correspond with the subfolder stores we made earlier.

Copy the .htaccess and Index.php from the main folder to these subfolders.

5. Edit index.php in each subfolder

Open index.php and replace these lines:

/* Store or website code */

$mageRunCode = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE'] : '';

/* Run store or run website */

$mageRunType = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE'] : 'store';

Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

With

Mage::run(‘mycode’, ‘website’); //(for me: Mage::run(‘kbc’, ‘website’);)

Okay so this was my notebook for this problem. Note that if you don’t see any products, that you are sure you alterd the right products in the right product scopes.

And ALWAYS disable your cache during development. Have a nice day.