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Magento Multiple Store Setup

Many times we need to create multiple stores in magento website. In magento we create different stores to make it more local. We can access different stores using below ways: 1) Domain (e.g. www.store1.com and www.store2.com) 2) Subdomain (e.g. store1.mystore.com and store2.mystore.com) 3) Folder (e.g. mystore.com/store1/ and mystore.com/store2/) Its all upto to you which way you prefer. For all these we need to follow below steps: Step 1: Add new Magento store: It might be possible that both store have different  catalogue so to manage this. We need to make two different Base Categories. To create a new base category follow below steps: Log in to your Magento admin panel. Go to Catalog -> Manage Categories . If you want both your websites to share same “ Default Category ”, select it by clicking on it on the left. Or click Add Root Category to create a new root category different from the existing one. Once the category is selected, under the General

Memcache with Magento : Magento speed like Rocket

Hi Fellas, I am sharing this article showing how we can use the power of memcache alnog with magento. One of major magento drawback would be its speed, although we can several ways to speed up. Memcache is good option as its new and fast. Before starting lets know a bit about what is memcache. Memcache is used to fast access database, api and etc. For this it uses some space on server. For more information please visit: http://www.memcached.org/ You can use below method to apply memcache for Magento v1.9 and older. Below are the steps for starting memcache on your magento store: 1) Go to app/etc/ and find local.xml file. 2) Find the </global> tag and paste below code before the tag. <cache> <cache>     <backend>memcached</backend>     <slow_backend>database</slow_backend>     <fast_backend>Memcached</fast_backend>     <fast_backend_options>         <servers>             <server>