How to Create Multiple Websites in Bagisto?

Bagisto allows you to set up and manage multiple instances of domains or stores in a single Bagisto backend. This guide will walk you through how to create multiple websites with different domains in Bagisto.

In short, with bagisto’s single instance, you can create multiple websites and provide different attributes and contents like

• Locales
• Currency
• Categories
• Products

For example, a typical use case of setting multiple websites on one instance is when you want one set of categories and products on one domain and another set of categories and products on a separate domain in a different language.

Creating Multiple Websites in Bagisto

For instance, here we are going to configure two websites (http://testbagisto4.com, http://testbagisto3.com) on the main instance (http://bagisto2.com/)

Creating Channels in Bagisto

The bagisto’s channel functionality allows creating multiple websites in bagisto. Here you need to proceed towards Settings>>Channels

Add Channel

Click on Add Channel button to create a new channel in bagisto. Subsequently, you need to fill all the necessary fields.

General

Below are the fields that fall under the General section

• Code: Provide a code for your channel
• Name: Provide an identifying name for your Channel
• Description: Provide more description about your channels regarding its uses, products that would be selling etc
• Inventory Sources: Here you select or multi-select inventories that you would be using for this particular channel.
• Root Category: One root category can be selected from the drop-down for your channel.
• Hostname: Here you can provide the URL of your website which you want to connect with your main bagisto’s instance.

Currencies and Locales

Here the settings needed to be done for the currency and locale

• Locales: Here you can select or multi-select locales that you would be using for the particular channel.
• Default Locale: Here amongst the locales that you have created, you can select the locale which should be there as default for your channel
• Currencies: Here you select or multi-select currencies that you would be using for the particular channel.
• Base Currency: Here you can choose the base currency for your eCommerce system in which you would be operating your business

Design

Within the design section, you can choose a theme from the drop-down option if multiple themes have been created.

In addition to that, you can provide home page and footer content, logo and favicon images which are to be displayed at the front-end of your website.

Configuring Apache File

Firstly, if you are using Apache as your web server and having root access, you need to go into your system files at the following path:

Further, you will get a configuration file named as 000-default.conf (the file name can vary).

After that, open the as said file above and add the following at the end of the document.

The only change you need to make in the Apache configuration file is adding the parameter ServerAlias whose value will be hostname which you have provided while creating a channel in bagisto.

After you have saved the configuration, just restart your Apache service again.

At last, you have successfully mapped the two domains(http://testbagisto4.com, http://testbagisto3.com) with Bagisto main instance (http://bagisto2.com/).

saurav pathak 26 February 2019, 13593 Views