adding additional catalogs

[angelbud]

Hi

I am running osc and would like to add a new shop using the same web space and domain - for example:

exsisting store: www.mydomain.com
New store: www.mydomain.com/newshop

Is this possible and what would I need to alter - I am re-uploading the exsisting store and then configuring from there
Also can I use the same database?

Any help thanks!

Carl

[Dragonmom]

(without being an expert- at all! )
I have set up three storefronts on my website- each one should go into its own directory. You can't share database, unless you change the names of the tables for each store- so that one store calls for PRODUCTS_INFO and thenext storefront calls for PRODUCTS1_info and so on. How to do this I have no clue! But it would be great, if the sales information could return to one admin.
There's a contribution called ministores, at OSC. you have one store that has everything in it, and you can designate mini stores at seperate URLS that contain a protion of the main store items. I am thinking of trying it out, but I want eachtore to look different and I'm not sure yet if this mod will let me do that.
I have separate DB's for each store. It means I have to check each admin panel in turn...

[Dragonmom]

I talked with the woman who created that contrib, and she said-

But yes I think
what
> > you described would work - just keeping the images separate and using
> > different colors or fonts in the stylesheet.css file (I think there's a
> > really good explanation of everything the stylesheet.css file can do out
> > there somewhere). You can make more elaborate changes but you would
just
> > need to be more careful about copying code over.
> >
> > Also one thing I did to reduce maintenance was symbolically link the
images
> > directory across all sites (so I wouldn't have to copy product images to
> > each site they belonged in). Since all images - product and system
> > related - are in the same catalog/images directory I would suggest
creating
> > a new directory called catalog/images_local and then do the following
(this
> > is really only necessary if you are symbolically linking your images
> > directory across the sites to share it):
> >
> > 1) modify your catalog/configure.php file to define the new directory
> > DIR_WS_IMAGES_LOCAL pointing to /images_local (see definition of
> > DIR_WS_IMAGES for example)
> > 2) change includes/header.php to use DIR_WS_IMAGES_LOCAL for the logo on
> > your site
> > 3) change anywhere else that uses DIR_WS_IMAGES for STYLE related images
> > only to use DIR_WS_IMAGES_LOCAL instead
> > 4) make sure you have all the appropriate style related images in the
> > images_local directory for each site, including the main one
> >
> > Regarding images sizes, with the current setup the answer is no since
it's
> > controlled by admin. However... if you expand this system you could do
> > that. You could create additional configuration records for each store
and
> > have the storename somewhere in them. Then change the places that look
up
> > the original configuration records to look for the storename records
instead
> > if GLOBAL_CURRENT_STORE_NAME != '' (basically the same type of logic
that I
> > used everywhere else for this contribution).