Microsite or Custom Landing Page for a Separate Domain

Question

I'm looking to create either a "microsite" or a custom landing page for a separate domain. Ideally, myproduct.com would land on a hidden page in my Magento site with its own look and feel. I do not want this page to appear in search results.

I am using Magento Enterprise 1.12 running on RHEL, Nginx, and Apache.

Persistent, as in does all further navigation need to retain the domain? If so, then no. :) — Mark Richman, Jan 16 '14 at 20:23
In that case, unless you have redirect to base URL setting set to yes, I find it hard to justify additional store/website scopes and symlinked FS setup. — benmarks, Jan 17 '14 at 17:43

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 15 '20 at 08:30

You can use store view feature of Magento. Create custome store view and use this for custom sub-domain. See steps:

1. Create store view:
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2. Create cms page and edit content as whatever you want, you can change design and layout updates also.
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3. Change store view configuration
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4. Create new folder in your Magento store root folder. Copy .htaccess and index.php files to this folder and change Magento run settingis:
index.php (change relative path of MAGENTO_ROOT according to sub domain folder):

define('MAGENTO_ROOT', getcwd().'/..');

.htaccess (add custom store view code to system variable)

SetEnv MAGE_RUN_CODE "sub_domain"

sub_domain is store view code which is created on step 1.

You can use this logic with any subdomain or separated domain. As a result if you enter this subdomain, your custom cms landing page will be shown with your default store theme and this page will be hidden for main store.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '14 at 21:00

You can specify custom theme and page layout for CMS, product, and category pages; just visit the appropriate page and select the tab related to "custom design" settings.

Regarding search engine indexing, that can't be controlled via a simple setting, but you can come close in the "custom layout XML" section using the following:

<block name="nofollow.head" type="core/text" parent="head">
    <action method="setText">
        <text><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />]]></text>
    </action>
</block>

This will add the appropriate meta tag to the page's output which should be honored by the search engines.

Microsite or Custom Landing Page for a Separate Domain

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