In this article, you will learn about creating multiple website in Magento.

Creating or setting up multiple stores in Magento is somehow easy but creating/setting up multiple website in Magento is a bit difficult task :).

This step-by-step tutorial will guide you to do so.

I suppose that you have installed Magento in folder named ‘magento’. So, your website URL will be http://yourwebsite.com/magento/

- Create Website, Store, and Store View

- Create Website
- Go to System –> Manage Stores
- Create Website
- Name = My Website
- Code = mywebsite
- Sort Order = 10
- Save Website

- Create Store
- Go to System -> Manage Stores
- Create Store
- Website = My Website
- Name = Main Store
- Root Category = Root Catalog

- Create Store View
- Go to System -> Manage Stores
- Create Store View
- Store = My Website -> Main Store
- Name = English
- Code = English
- Status = Enabled
- Sort Order = 10

- Change Link URL
- Go to System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Web
- Change ‘Current Configuration Scope’ to ‘My Website’
- Unsecure -> Base URL = http://yourwebsite.com/magento/
- Unsecure -> Base Link URL = http://yourwebsite.com/magento/mywebsite/

- Change Theme (Optional: If you want different design for your new website)

- Suppose your new design template and skin folder is named ‘mywebsite’
- Copy ‘mywebsite’ template folder to magento/app/design/frontend/default/
- Copy ‘mywebsite’ skin folder to magento/skin/frontend/default/

- Go to System -> Configuration -> GENERAL -> Design
- Change ‘Current Configuration Scope’ to ‘My Website’
- Themes -> Default = ‘mywebsite’
- Uncheck ‘Use Default’
- Save Config

- Create a new folder named ‘mywebsite’ inside ‘magento’ folder.

- Copy index.php of magento folder into mywebsite folder.

- Open index.php of mywebsite folder.
- Change $compilerConfig = ‘includes/config.php’; to $compilerConfig = ‘../includes/config.php’;
- Change $mageFilename = ‘app/Mage.php’; to $mageFilename = ‘../app/Mage.php’;
- Change Mage::run(); to Mage::run(‘mywebsite’,'website’);

- Copy .htaccess file from magento folder to mywebsite folder

Finally, you have created a new website for your magento shop. Your base installation can be browsed by http://yourwebsite.com/magento/ and your new website can be browsed by http://yourwebsite.com/magento/mywebsite/

Hope this helps. Thanks.