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Alen Giliana
Alen Giliana

Reputation: 2154

Magento Multi site instance with 2 IP addresses

We're adding a second storefront to our existing Magento instance. The two store fronts will be accessed by different domain names and would have to have separate IP address to differentiate the payment charges on the customer's CC (so I am told by Authorize.net) and add SSL certificate to both.

My server support has no idea how to point a different domain name over to the magento instance since it's on a different IP address and the hosting company support team has said it can't be done. I am being told to build a new Magento instance, but I find that hard to believe. There must be other multisite instances on different IP addresses.

How do I set up multiple IP addresses on one server which share the same document root in PLESK?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 310

Answers (1)

Oleg Neumyvakin
Oleg Neumyvakin

Reputation: 10312

I've found this approach which may be not compatible with Magento:

  1. You have subscription example.tld with Magento on IP1.
  2. Create new subscription on IP2 with name of your new front domain.
  3. In subscription of new front place in /httpdocs/index.html content: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>!!!! replace it with your page title!!!!</TITLE> </HEAD> <FRAMESET> <FRAME SRC="https://your-new-front.tld/" NORESIZE> <NOFRAMES> Your browser does not support frames. </NOFRAMES> </FRAMESET> </HTML>

There is another approach to create custom virtual host for web server(nginx or apache) with new fron domain name and IP2 which web root points to old front but if you have separate SSL certificate for new front you need to maintain this certificates files manually, it will be quite hard. Plus extra maintenance of backup/restore of this configuration.

Third approach with customizing web server configs template from /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/ (as I understand there just need additional IP and server name in your current virtual server config). It's gives you no extra backup/restore.

P.S. We have this pain just because current Plesk design doesn't allow 2 IPv4 address for single subscription.

Upvotes: 1

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