Shopsite: Move between domains?

[VIDGuide]

Hi. I installed ShopSite Starter onto my primary domain while investigating its feasibility, and I feel it can do what I need it to do for me.

however, It will be best suited on one of my alternate domain sites. i used the Pow web tool to change the domain settings, and selected save.

Now if I go into ShopSite's configuration tool, and click My Shop, it uses the URL updated with the pow web tool.

However, that URL gives a 404! The store is still accessible via the old URL. I've given it a short amount of time, and no change. Does this just need to be left a little longer, or do I need tech support to change something else?

thanks!

[IanS]

You will probably need to contact support - not many here use Shopsite as it is a relatively new offering from Powweb.

[VIDGuide]

OK, all sorted. turns out it was because of folder redirection being used for the second domain.

The solution was to create a sub domain (store.domain2.com) for the store,and then use an apache rewrite to forward domain2.com/store to that sub domain (ShopSite generates its own URLs based on domain/store, so a redirect is needed to get it to the sub domain)

Hope this helps for anyone else looking at using ShopSite on a 2nd domain with folder

Rewrite for referencE:

redirection.RewriteBase /domain2/store
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://store.domain2.com/$1 [R]

[IanS]

Thank you for publishing your solution.

[dmacminn]

BTW: ShopSite uses an SQLite database internally (at least that's my understanding) and it runs from a separate server cluster, so it doesn't get impacted by the current MySQL issues ... that means, while less configurable, it is probably more robust an choice for a store/catalog at present ...

And, before someone shoots off about it ... ShopSite has been available for years and years on the platform (it just wasn't directly offered to Powweb, since Powweb was viewed as a more savvy, "pick your own best solution" platform) -- this is NOT some kind of conspiracy to force you to pick ShopSite ....

"My dear, I [sic: we] don't give a ...." [Rhett Butler] what you use ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankly,_my_dear,_I_don't_give_a_damn.