WooCommerce Marketplace Vendor Subdomain

WooCommerce Vendor Subdomain module allows the vendors to have their own subdomain or domain.

The module creates URLs for each vendor’s page under vendor’s subdomain or domain.

Let’s say your website has domain abc.com which is mapped to some IP address X.X.X.X. And this server has a Webserver running whose document root is point to Woocommerce files and directories.

So, if you want to allow vendors to have their own subdomain or domain which can be accessed by the customers directly for purchasing products, then follow the steps being mentioned below:

Let’s presume you want to facilitate a vendor (with keyword newseller) to use subdomain for its products.

1. DNS panel entry:

1). Create an A entry in your DNS panel for newseller.abc.com and map it your server IP address X.X.X.X

2). Ping and check if newseller.abc.com is resolving to the mapped IP address or not.

2). Configuring Web Servers :

Once DNS entry has been done, configure your webserver to complete subdomain configuration process.

Configuring Apache Web Server:

Add entries in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf as:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName newseller.abc.com

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /path/to/woocommerce/files

</VirtualHost>

Edit above, uncomment ServerName and replace your required domain name with
www.example.com and add ServerAlias with *.domain name as below:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.webkul.com
ServerAlias *.test.webkul.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

Configuring Nginx Web Server:

Add entries in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default as:

server {

listen 80;

root /path/to/woocommerce/files;

server_name newseller.abc.com;

index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

## Add rest of the Nginx Configuration here ##

}

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
…
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

server_name test.webkul.com *.test.webkul.com;

…
}

3). Now hit the URL newseller.abc.com on the browser and check if everything’s working properly or not.

Note: By clicking on this link, you can see the DNS configuration.