Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #9: Configuring Magento Stores; Part 2 Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

this is another one of those situations
where some of these options are going to
be for slightly more advanced users so
in some cases if you don't know what
some of the options here mean you
probably shouldn't be playing around
with them anyway we'll take a look at a
few so we're going to go through these
one by one URL options this falls in
line with what I was just saying if
you're not sure what adds to our code to
URLs or auto redirect to base URL means
then just don't worry about them in 99%
of cases you're not going to really need
to do anything here so we're not going
to worry about these for a basic store
we're going to keep these settings just
as they are we're going to use the
system values same with search engine
optimization and this is kind of
misleading because this doesn't really
get too much into search engine
optimization but use server rewrites
we're going to keep this as yes use the
system value I may have unselected that
from earlier if yours was selected run
selected don't worry about that just
keep yes here now base URLs let's open
this this is simply your domain and in
case you ever change domains you'll want
to change your base URL here so the
website basically knows where you are
and what it should use for links in
various areas on your website the rest
of these we're going to leave alone
basic URLs secure we're going to do the
same thing here
we're going to leave all this alone and
then we have things like default pages
we're not going to worry about the rest
of these settings either again there are
some cases where you may need to change
some of these settings if you're a more
advanced user but for a beginner you
should just leave all of these alone
obviously if you know what you're doing
and there's something you need to change
here then that speaks for itself but
again in 99% of cases you're not going
to want to do anything here
unless you're again an advanced user a
developer and there's something specific
that you need to change in which case
you will already know what you need to
change let's take a look at design this
is another area that's really just for
advanced users if you know what a
robots.txt file is then you know what
kind of things that you may want to put
in here if not it's perfectly fine just
to leave it alone note this also is a
little bit misleading this doesn't
really have anything to do with the
design of your website this simply has
to do with as it says here search engine
robots crawling your site if you don't
do anything here your site will be just
like any other site on the web just like
99% of web sites and search engine
robots will crawl your site in the
normal fashion let's go to currency
setup and we're going to open up
currency options here now this should be
pretty self-explanatory the base
currency this is the currency that
essentially you are going to do business
in now you can as you can see down here
allow other currencies to be used from
placing orders on your site but your
doing business in maybe the US dollar
and so that's what the base currency for
your website is if you're using
something else obviously you'll just
change it to whatever else you're using
I'm going to be using the US dollar and
then you have the default display
currency again in 99% of cases this will
be the same as your base currency but
it's possible that maybe you're running
a store and you're located in the US but
99% of your customers are maybe in
Europe and they're going to be using the
Euro so you want them to see prices in
Euros so they're not confused and so
they know exactly how much things will
cost for them that might be a case where
these two things will be different but
again in most cases this will be the
same this is simply the currency that's
used on the front end of your website
that visitors will see and again here we
have allowed currencies you can select
other currencies besides your base
currency that users can pay with and
down here we have various settings for
these are the various ways that your
website is going to update the exchange
rate now the options we have here for
Yahoo Finance exchange fixed or ILO and
web service X don't really do much as
far as echoes this is just for
connection timeouts when they're trying
to get information from these services
to determine exchange rates and in most
cases you're not going to want to do
anything with these right here but if we
look at scheduled import settings this
is for automatically updating exchange
rate information again if you accept
multiple currencies on your website so
if you want to have scheduled import
settings again if you want the exchange
rate to update automatically on your
website you would change this to yes
select the service that you would like
to use select the time of day that you
would like the conversion information to
be updated the frequency daily weekly or
monthly probably no reason not to go
with daily here you should probably use
this in most cases then you have error
email recipient which means if there's a
problem getting exchange information and
updating the exchange rate information
on your website if you're accepting
multiple currencies then whatever email
you put in here will receive a message
saying hey there is a problem Magento
was not able to update the conversion
information you need to do something to
fix that the error email sender is
simply the email address that it will
show up as coming from and then if you
want to change the email template you
can do that but we're not going to dig
into that for our site we're just going
to keep things basic and just use one
currency so I'm going to change no here
one other quick note about scheduled
import settings is you absolutely have
to have cron running on your site
properly or on your server rather
in order for this to work so if you
don't know what that means that's kind
of one of those things that's a little
bit outside of the scope of this
tutorial you need to look up cron and it
works differently on different servers
need to find out how cron is set up on
your web host and this is another reason
why I do recommend once again using
nexus or some host that really is very
familiar with Magento and offers Magento
specific packages because they'll have
cron set up perfectly for your website
so you don't have to worry about it it
should be running just fine and in a way
to where this information is updated
automatically if you have it enabled