[Discussion] Add possibility to access frontend and backend on different domains

[ochnygosch]

We plan to use different domains for the magento storefront and the backend. And we would like to add acceptance tests to our ci pipeline which are as close to production as possible.

Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to separate storefront and backend.

For example it should be possible to write a test like this:

• Login to backend on (backend.example.com/admin)
• Create simple product
• Verfiy on storefront (store.example.com) that the product exists

There are already some places in the codebase where this distinction seemed to have been considered (like in functional.suite.dist.yml), but I haven't found a way to use this configuration in a test.

[okolesnyk]

Hi @ochnygosch

It is possible to specify different domains for magento storefront and admin panel.
MAGENTO_BASE_URL = https://github.com/magento/magento2-functional-testing-framework/blob/develop/etc/config/.env.example#L5
MAGENTO_BACKEND_BASE_HOST = https://github.com/magento/magento2-functional-testing-framework/blob/develop/etc/config/.env.example#L8

You just need to specify in .env file arguments I listed above.

Please check if it works for you and in case you need something in addition to it open new issue.

Thank you.

[okolesnyk]

In the tests we differentiate storefront and admin by using area attribute in Page entities. Here you can find more info about it: https://devdocs.magento.com/mftf/docs/page.html#page-tag

[ochnygosch]

Hi @okolesnyk
I found this configuration option, but I don't think it will work. (Unfortunately I currently haven't the possibility to investigate further).
MAGENTO_BACKEND_BASE_HOST is not used anywhere in the mftf. The only similar config option I have found is MAGENTO_BACKEND_BASE_URL. Which is used in ModuleResolver, but even there the method getEnabledModules only references MAGENTO_BASE_URL.

As far as I can tell the only thing the area attribute in the page definition does, is prepending the admin controller front name (e.g. "admin") to the page url.

Please let me know if I am missing something.
Thanks for your reply.

[tomreece]

@soumyau created this internal ticket related to this Github issue:
https://jira.corp.magento.com/browse/MQE-1805

[lbajsarowicz]

@ochnygosch I actually introduced the feature to handle MAGENTO_BACKEND_BASE_HOST config. I'm really sorry that this does not work properly.

I'm going to assign the issue to me and fix the issue you're facing.

[soumyau]

The fix has been been rolled out in MFTF 2.6.5. Keeping this issue open until it's rolled out for MFTF3.x. Thanks for your contribution @lbajsarowicz!

[jilu1]

Community contribution and close this issue.