How to Create Multiple Websites in WooCommerce

Most of us are aware of multi-site feature of WordPress 3.0 and above. This article contains instructions to create a multi-site network in woocommerce.

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Step 1: How to install WordPress in your local web server.

Download WordPress 3.x
Extract the downloaded files and keep it in C: à xampp à htdocs of your local server e.g (XAMPP)
Create your wordpress database by typing http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin in the url.

Open the browser and type 127.0.0.1/wordpress in the URL. (Here wordpress is the name of the hosted folder).
Choose your language and click on “Continue”.

Go through the welcome message and click on “Let’s go!”.

Provide the Username and Password (Password is not mandatory).

Click on “Run the install” option that appears in the following window.
Provide the “Username” and “Your Email” in the respective fields and keep a note of the “Password”.
Click on “Install WordPress”.

Step 2: How to add WooCommerce plugin to your WordPress.

Choose “Plugins” from the vertical toolbar and click on the “Add New” button.

Search for WooCommerce in the search bar and click on the “Install Now” button.

After the plugin, has been installed successfully click on the Activate button to activate the plugin.

WooCommerce will be visible in the plugin list.

Step 3: How to enable multiple website creation in WooCommerce.

Before you begin with the network installation process, deactivate all your active plugins.
In order to enable the Network Setup menu, Multisite should be first defined in “wp-config.php”
Go to wp-config.php in the hosted folder

and add /* Multisite */define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true ); above where it says /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */.
You will need to refresh your browser to continue.
The previous step enables theNetwork Setup item in your Tools menu.
Go to Administration àTools à Network Setup.
Check the details and click on the “Install” button.

In order to enable the network, we need to follow two steps, but before that make sure to keep a backup of your existingwp-config.php and .htaccess files, unless it is a fresh install.

1. Add the specified lines to yourwp-config.php file (These lines must be added just after the Multisite definition as in the previous steps)

define(‘MULTISITE’, true);

define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);

define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘127.0.0.1’);

define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/wordpress/’);

define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

2. Add the specified lines to your .htaccessfile (If you do not have a .htaccess file, then create it in the same directory as your wp-config.php file and if you already have a .htaccess file, replace the existing lines with these new ones)

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /wordpress/

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^ – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]