Multiple multilingual sites/domains on one EZ installation

Monday 12 February 2007 8:34:24 am

Hello there,

I'm trying to setup the following:

Two/More Domains (domain1.com, domain2.com, ....)
Two/More Languages (german=de, english=en, ....)

I want to have different layouts for the domains (e.g. think of different products).
The language should be part of the url, uniformely accessible like this:
domain1.com/en/
domain1.com/de/
domain2.com/en/
domain2.com/de/

Everything works fine with ONE domain.

Now my problem: According to docs and the forum, I should solve the language part via two siteaccesses named "en" and "de". This sounds practically, at first. But, as I have two domains: I need "de" and "en" twice ... for each domain! Since each siteaccess is a folder, they can only exist once. Normal behavior is that the site access'es name is encoded in the url exactly. Consequence: for the second domain there can be no "de" or "en" siteaccess, obviously.

My question: can Exponential be configured to resolve a siteaccess named "domain1en" to an alias named "en" in the url? That would solve my problem.

Anybody an(other) idea?
(Multiple site with multiple languages should have been realized on a singleton installation in the past, I think.)

Regards,

Andreas Tremel

Tuesday 13 February 2007 1:47:06 am

Hi Claudia,

thank you for the quick reply! I need the language in a dir, not in a subdomain.
We're migrating a large strutcture and do not want to change the uris because of seo/partner links reasons.

Thats my site.ini override to manage the siteaccess. As you can see, the subdomains are also configured, but they are only an alternative access. Main access should be domain1.com/en/

[SiteSettings]
DefaultAccess=en
SiteList[]=de
SiteList[]=en

[SiteAccessSettings]
ForceVirtualHost=true
CheckValidity=false
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=corporate_site_admin
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=de
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=en
MatchOrder=host;uri
HostMatchMapItems[]=www.de.domain1.com;de
HostMatchMapItems[]=www.en.domain1.com;en
HostMatchMapItems[]=admin.domain1.com;corporate_site_admin
URIMatchType=element
URIMatchElement=1 

Thats the rewrite module section of the vhost. All domains are hosted here:

    	#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        	RewriteEngine On
        	Rewriterule ^/var/storage/.* - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/var/[^/]+/storage/.* - [L]
        	RewriteRule ^/var/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
        	RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/cache/texttoimage/.* - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
        	RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
        	RewriteRule ^/favicon\.ico - [L]
        	RewriteRule ^/robots\.txt - [L]
        	Rewriterule ^/support/.* - [L]
        	RewriteRule .* /index.php
    	#</IfModule>

Could you give me an example how to modify these files to set servervariables and read them via site.ini?

Regards,

Andreas

Friday 16 February 2007 2:26:13 am

Hello Claudia,

thnak you for the hint. It's eassier than I expected, however modification of the files lib/classes/ezsys.php and access.php is necessary.

This thread describes it:
http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/running_two_multilingual_sites_on_a_single_ezp_installation/

The trick: you actually have 4 siteaccesses:
site1_de
site1_en
site2_de
site2_en

When an URL is parsed or generated, the "siten_"-part is added to the url or truncated from it.
It works for EZ 3.8.4.

Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Andreas

Friday 16 February 2007 5:44:48 am

Hello Claudia,

Apply these changes (wroks for EZP 3.8.4.):

1. file: access.php, function: "accessType( &$uri, $host, $port, $file )", line ~123:

before:

else if ( $match_type == 'element' )
{
  $match_index = $ini->variable( 'SiteAccessSettings', 'URIMatchElement' );
  $elements = $uri->elements( false );
  $elements = array_slice( $elements, 0, $match_index );
  $name = implode( '_', $elements );
}

after:

else if ( $match_type == 'element' )
{
  $match_index = $ini->variable( 'SiteAccessSettings', 'URIMatchElement' );
  $elements = $uri->elements( false );
  $elements = array_slice( $elements, 0, $match_index );
  //$name = implode( '_', $elements );
  $hostname = explode(".",$host);
  $name = $hostname[1]."_".implode( '_', $elements ); 
}

2. file: lib/ezutils/classes/ezsys.php, function: "function addAccessPath( $path )", line ~813:

before:

function addAccessPath( $path )
{
  if ( isset( $this ) and get_class( $this ) == "ezsys" )
    $instance =& $this;
  else
    $instance =& eZSys::instance();
  if ( !is_array( $path ) )
    $path = array( $path );
    $instance->AccessPath = array_merge( $instance->AccessPath, $path );
}

after:

function addAccessPath( $path )
{
  $modified_path = explode("_",$path);
  $path = $modified_path[1];

  if ( isset( $this ) and get_class( $this ) == "ezsys" )
    $instance =& $this;
  else
    $instance =& eZSys::instance();
  if ( !is_array( $path ) )
    $path = array( $path );
    $instance->AccessPath = array_merge( $instance->AccessPath, $path );
}

That's it.

Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Andreas