multiple multi-lingual site with host access method?

Wednesday 16 July 2008 9:01:55 am

Hi raphael,

This question pops up every year but I'm afraid that the answer is the same. You can't mix hostname and uri siteaccess matching.

Easy alternative solution is to use hostname matching and for multilanguage use subdomains ( for example en.raphinou.com, fr.raphinou.com).

There is one more solution which is very ugly. You need to have to virtual dirs for every domain and then link everything on filesystem except settings dir.
Very, very ugly .

Hope to see some better solutions in the near future...

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Thursday 17 July 2008 6:26:16 am

This is how we've solved it:

http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/running_two_multilingual_sites_on_a_single_ezp_installation

It does require adding a few lines to access.php and lib/ezutils/classes/ezsys.php

specifically, to access.php:

                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 );

 //start Contactivity multilingual hack
                    $hostname=explode(".",$host);
                    $hostname=explode(":",$hostname[0]);
                    $language=implode( '_', $elements );
                    if (!$language)
                        $language="en";
                    $name=$hostname[0]."_".$language;
//end Contactivity multilingual hack

                }

to ezsys.php:

    static function addAccessPath( $path )
    {
        $instance = eZSys::instance();
        if ( !is_array( $path ) )
            $path = array( $path );

//start multilingual Contactivity hack
        $modified_path=explode("_",implode(",",$path));
        $path=array($modified_path[1]);
//end multilingual Contactivity hack

        $instance->AccessPath = array_merge( $instance->AccessPath, $path );
    }

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Tuesday 06 October 2009 7:55:05 pm

Do you think you could just use 4 site access and two domains, with the two domains point to the same eZ Publish root? Thus, you can just use the uri match order.

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