Multiple domains with the same Language area ID

Posted on 24/03/2011 09:12:36

Hi there,

One of our partners is trying to set up the following structure:

http://domain1.com/NL/SomePage.aspx
http://domain1.com/EN/SomePage.aspx
http://domain2.com/NL/SomePage.aspx
http://domain2.com/EN/SomePage.aspx

There are two distinct domains (domain1 and domain2), each with its own language layers (a NL and a EN layer).

To test this out, I set up four layers and assigned primary domains to each of the layers. I named each layer NL and EN respectively and configured SEO URLs to include the language name.

However, it doesn't seem to work correctly. For example, requests to http://domain1.com/NL/SomePage.aspx end up on http://domain2.com/NL/SomePage.aspx (e.g. they are redirected to the second domain).

Is this setup supported without resorting to including the language in the sub domain (e.g. nl.domain1.com/SomePage.aspx) ? I would say it should be possible as each URL is unique.

Any ideas?

Kind regards,

Imar

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/03/2011 13:39:17

It sounds like you have enabled "Ensure unique paths for each area (Requires unique domain for each area) (WARNING: This can break links on your website) "?

Otherwise the system would not accept 2 urls of name /NL/SomePage.aspx - since that becomes the Unique identifier for pages. It does not take primary domain into consideration, because 2 websites could share hostname.

So you need different hostnames (i.e. en.domain2.com) for each language or disable "Ensure unique" thingie...

Disable Ensure unique would result in these URLs:
http://domain1.com/NL/SomePage.aspx
http://domain1.com/EN/SomePage.aspx
http://domain2.com/NL/SomePage-1.aspx
http://domain2.com/EN/SomePage-1.aspx
http://domain2.com/NL/SomePage/Subpage.aspx
http://domain2.com/EN/SomePage/Subpage.aspx
http://domain2.com/NL/SomeOtherPage.aspx
http://domain2.com/EN/SomeOtherPage.aspx

Posted on 24/03/2011 14:09:20

Ha, yes, that makes perfect sense, especially the highlighted bit ;-)

Just a pity you get files like FileName-1.aspx instead of just FileName.aspx. Wouldn't it be possible to take the folder name (e.g. NL and EN) into account as well?

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/03/2011 14:15:47

It does take folder name into consideration...

Problem is - you have 2 pages called NL/SomePage.aspx and 2 pages called EN/SomePage.aspx - on different domains, I know - but it could be on same domain.

I could make yet another checkbox to handle the URL indexes, so you would have these 3 posibilities:

- Unique for entire solution - all areas/pages have a unique name. (Using the same domain across the entire site)

- Unique for each area (Like the unique you have now - would require a domain for each area to work)

- Unique for each primary domain - that would be a new option, holding an index for each primary domain in the solution. That would be a combination of the 2 first.

Posted on 24/03/2011 14:24:42

Well, one can never have enough checkboxes in a CMS.... ;-)

I can see where this would be useful. For example, if I have a B2B site and a B2C site, each targeting Dutch and English customers.

Not sure if it's common enough to warrant another checkbox, but if something like what you propose could be added without breaking a lot of stuff or existing sites, I know at least one partner who'd be happy ;-)

Imar

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