Mall setting want 2 to have their own ip, other than the main default store.

[kampourisl]

Have 2 accounts, like to merge into one mall (2 currently) with 2-3 of the 6 with their own ip.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

1) Why?
2) Pretty sure the answer is no...but that is something only miva could answer. Technically, sure. But would probably mess up their site setup and control systems.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

There is not an officially supported manner of merging two standalone copies into a mall format. It may be possible, but the costs to do it may exceed what it would cost to just rebuild, because it can encounter issues related to modules, which id they received when added, store-level data referencing modules by id, etc. If both stores are the first store, even more problems related to store numerical id, paths to files, etc.

In any case, I'm not understanding the question about the IP per storefront in a mall config. By definition, a mall runs on one domain name, and one domain would have the same IP, or IPs, regardless of the storefront URI being requested, i.e. domain.com/StoreA vs domain.com/StoreB is still domain.com, with its specific IP addressing.

[kampourisl]

What I wanted to do is merge 2 accounts and the malls into 1 hoping to be able to be able to reach essencialdreams.com by url and also vitaevalue.com also by it's own url. I might have been wrong saying ip. Ultimatly want to consolidate the 2 malls into 1 but again be able to reach 2 main stores via their domain names.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

It will not be part of the initial release of Miva Merchant 10 (coming VERY soon), but multi-domain functionality will be arriving with a post-10.0 release. It will allow one copy of Miva Merchant to manage and serve content unique to the different domains shoppers are accessing it by. It will unfortunately not have functionality built around importing a separate copy of Miva Merchant as an additional domain, that would continue to be a manual process handled in whatever manner may be most efficient for the situation, whether that's using import/export tools, the API, manual database editing, etc. I do not believe what currently exists as additional storefront functionality will be how multi-domain is implemented, so my advice at this point would be to not proceed with a merging of two stores into one mall, as that may actually hurt the long term goal of having one copy of Merchant serve their domain-unique content. It would be best to wait for multi-domain to launch and then we determine the optimal method of merging, specific to your two stores. Unfortunately we do not have a public date for that feature launch.

If it is imperative to have this functionality before multi-domain is in the core software, it is possible, but relies on very heavy customization, so it can be costly on the labor side.