I installed it in a subdomain because I had my original, non-ecommerce site under the base domain and already had SSL I was trying to use for all stores but found it wouldn't work because of subdomain requirement for multistore vs subfolders for stores.
I think my response is late, but we have a very good article outlining the process of configuring multiple stores in nopCommerce, this talks about domain mapping too. I believe this will help you and others who is new to nopCommerce.
What I am wanting to do is have 1 primary domain/Store with multiple locations/stores for customers to pickup their orders. from what it appears I would have my primary domain/Store ie: www.domain.com then additional locations of location1.domain.com location2.domain.com location3.domain.com
The problem is how to set this up. I don't want to have to purchase multiple domain names when it is the same store identity for all locations. All the examples given seem to be saying you have different identities ie: www.abc.com or www.xyz.com which would require having multiple domain names which I don't want or need. I want to be like Bestbuy. 1 name/domain with lots of locations and you pick your location 1st to know there is a place to pickup your purchase. From going thru the menus it appears this is possible but documentation isn't very good on how to do it.
Thats exactly how it can work Setup DNS A Record domain.com XX.XX.XX.XX CNAME location1.domain.com - domain.com CNAME location2.domain.com - domain.com CNAME location3.domain.com - domain.com Setup nopCommerce Main Store StoreURL: http://www.domain.com Host values: www.domain.com Store 1 enter StoreURL: http://location1.domain.com Host values: location1.domain.com Store 2 enter StoreURL: http://location2.domain.com Host values: location2.domain.com Store 3 enter StoreURL: http://location3.domain.com Host values: location3.domain.com
Thats exactly how it can work Setup DNS A Record domain.com XX.XX.XX.XX CNAME location1.domain.com - domain.com CNAME location2.domain.com - domain.com CNAME location3.domain.com - domain.com Setup nopCommerce Main Store StoreURL: http://www.domain.com Host values: www.domain.com Store 1 enter StoreURL: http://location1.domain.com Host values: location1.domain.com Store 2 enter StoreURL: http://location2.domain.com Host values: location2.domain.com Store 3 enter StoreURL: http://location3.domain.com Host values: location3.domain.com
If main domain and sub-domain is under same hosting - still I have set A record and C Name ?