# Configure a local Magento 2 multi-store

When we have to configure a multi-store in your local machine you can configure the local NGINX or Apache configuration to make it work, or you can quickly change your `index.php` just to test, fix the issues and not commit this change.

In this same case just to test using Magento 1 we used to change the `$mageRunCode` and `$mageRunType` in the **.htaccess** or **httpd.conf**.

In Magento 2 to test quickly you can use that code into your `index.php`:

```
$params = $_SERVER;
$params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_CODE] = 'website_code';
$params[\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManager::PARAM_RUN_TYPE] = 'website';
$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $params);
```