Ok, I have tried with 3 separate people at network solutions to set up the multi store aliases and they each told me a different way and none of them work. Here's what I did. I went to store 2 and set up a cname record with an alias named "vital" that points to store 1. So I have vital.store2.com pointing to www.store1.com Setting up the domain alias from store 1 to store 2 is where network solutions keeps changing their recommendations, do I do that as a CNAME record and point it to vital.store2.com?
Any help is much appreciated, I'm not getting any support from network solutions and I emailed them the page that describes exactly how to do this on nopcommerce. Thanks!
You should not be worried about CNAME, you can setup multi-store easily following ways
You can own two domains like www.store1.com, www.store2.com Then create two stores in nop (configurataion -> stores) and configure Store name: store1 Store URL: http://www.store1.com/ HOST values:: www.store1.com,store1.com
Store name: store2 Store URL: http://www.store2.com/ HOST values:: www.store2.com,store2.com
Or
You can own one domain www.store.com and create a subdomain www.abc.store.com Then create two stores in nop (configurataion -> stores) and configure Store name: store Store URL: http://www.store.com/ HOST values:: www.store.com,store.com
Store name: abc Store URL: http://www.abc.store.com/ HOST values:: www.abc.store.com,abc.store.com
This is how I have mine set up in NOP: Store 1 http://subdomain1.domain1.com Host values - subdomain1.domain1.com
Store 2 http://subdomain2.domain2.com Host values - subdomain2.domain2.com
I have both bindings on the one site in IIS subdomain1.domain1.com subdomain2.domain2.com
With this setup it seems NOP is only showing the subdomain1 site on both domains. When I move products, whatever is registered to show in the Store 1 is what shows on both domains, even though the URL changes in the URL bar at the top. Also changes to Page Titles and other things point to the Store 1 showing on both domain names. Yes, I have disabled the check box for Ignore Store Limits in the Catalog settings, as described in documentation.
This is how I have mine set up in NOP: Store 1 http://subdomain1.domain1.com Host values - subdomain1.domain1.com
Store 2 http://subdomain2.domain2.com Host values - subdomain2.domain2.com
I have both bindings on the one site in IIS subdomain1.domain1.com subdomain2.domain2.com
With this setup it seems NOP is only showing the subdomain1 site on both domains. When I move products, whatever is registered to show in the Store 1 is what shows on both domains, even though the URL changes in the URL bar at the top. Also changes to Page Titles and other things point to the Store 1 showing on both domain names. Yes, I have disabled the check box for Ignore Store Limits in the Catalog settings, as described in documentation.
Is this not the correct way to set it up?
Yes, if it's not limited to specific store, item will be shown in both stores by default. Configuration seems correct, I would put one slash(/) end of the store url like http://subdomain2.domain2.com/ to ignore some issues.