How to create multiple multilingual sites in one install?

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Marc Boon	Thursday 12 January 2006 9:55:20 am I'm currently evaluating eZ Publish for a rather large project with two multilingual sites using shared content. I tried for a few days to set this up, but didn't find a complete solution. Can anybody help? This is the situation: site1.com/ # default (english) version of site1 site1.com/en/ # same as above site1.com/de/ # german version of site1 site1.com/es/ # spanish version of site1 site1.com/admin/ # admin site for site1 site2.com/ # default (english) version of site2 site2.com/en/ # same as above site2.com/fr/ # french version of site2 site2.com/ar/ # arabic version of site2 site2.com/admin/ # admin site for site2 I first tried a combination of host and uri matching (settings/override/site.ini.append.php): [SiteAccessSettings] MatchOrder=host;uri But this doesn't work, because when a host match is found, the uri is not evaluated. The other way around also doesn't work: MatchOrder=uri;host When a uri match is found, the host is not evaluated, and you don't know which site the uri belongs to (both sites have /en/ for example). Then I tried a combination of servervar and host matching, and using Apache to set the servervar (both sites have the same DocumentRoot): MatchOrder=servervar;host ServerVariableName=SITE_ACCESS HostMatchType=map HostMatchMapItems[]=site1.com;site1_en HostMatchMapItems[]=site2.com;site2_en The server variable is set by Apache using the SetEnvIf directive (using mod_setenvif): In the <VirtualHost> section or .htaccess for site1: SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/de/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_de SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/es/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_es SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/admin/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_admin In the <VirtualHost> section or .htaccess for site2: SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/fr/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_fr SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/ar/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_ar SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/admin/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_admin When no language is specified, the server var SITE_ACCESS is not set, so the servervar match fails, and the host matching takes care of the default site access (MatchOrder=servervar;host). Site access works now, but the language/admin part is interpreted as a module, with a 'module not found' error as a result. I tried fixing this using the PathPrefix setting, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?

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Thursday 12 January 2006 9:55:20 am

I'm currently evaluating eZ Publish for a rather large project with two multilingual sites using shared content.
I tried for a few days to set this up, but didn't find a complete solution. Can anybody help?

This is the situation:

site1.com/ # default (english) version of site1
site1.com/en/ # same as above
site1.com/de/ # german version of site1
site1.com/es/ # spanish version of site1
site1.com/admin/ # admin site for site1

site2.com/ # default (english) version of site2
site2.com/en/ # same as above
site2.com/fr/ # french version of site2
site2.com/ar/ # arabic version of site2
site2.com/admin/ # admin site for site2

I first tried a combination of host and uri matching (settings/override/site.ini.append.php):

[SiteAccessSettings]
MatchOrder=host;uri

But this doesn't work, because when a host match is found, the uri is not evaluated. The other way around also doesn't work:

MatchOrder=uri;host

When a uri match is found, the host is not evaluated, and you don't know which site the uri belongs to (both sites have /en/ for example).

Then I tried a combination of servervar and host matching, and using Apache to set the servervar (both sites have the same DocumentRoot):

MatchOrder=servervar;host
ServerVariableName=SITE_ACCESS
HostMatchType=map
HostMatchMapItems[]=site1.com;site1_en
HostMatchMapItems[]=site2.com;site2_en

The server variable is set by Apache using the SetEnvIf directive (using mod_setenvif):

In the <VirtualHost> section or .htaccess for site1:

SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/de/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_de
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/es/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_es
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/admin/ SITE_ACCESS=site1_admin

In the <VirtualHost> section or .htaccess for site2:

SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/fr/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_fr
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/ar/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_ar
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/admin/ SITE_ACCESS=site2_admin

When no language is specified, the server var SITE_ACCESS is not set, so the servervar match fails, and the host matching takes care of the default site access (MatchOrder=servervar;host).

Site access works now, but the language/admin part is interpreted as a module, with a 'module not found' error as a result. I tried fixing this using the PathPrefix setting, but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 04:28:14
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 04:28:14
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 04:28:14
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 04:28:16
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 04:28:16
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	1.4993 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	46

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0059	588.1719	152.6563
Module start 'layout'	0.0059	0.0031	740.8281	39.5078
Module start 'content'	0.0090	1.4888	780.3359	416.8516
Module end 'content'	1.4978	0.0014	1,197.1875	8.0938
Script end	1.4992		1,205.2813

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0037	0.2450	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0014	0.0917	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0011	0.0750	1	0.0011
Mysqli_queries	1.4288	95.3024	46	0.0311
Looping result	0.0005	0.0353	44	0.0000
Template Total	1.4602	97.4	2	0.7301
Template load	0.0021	0.1432	2	0.0011
Template processing	1.4581	97.2515	2	0.7290
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0067	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0010	0.0678	1	0.0010
state_identifier_array	0.0018	0.1193	2	0.0009
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.1169	31	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0009	0.0625	1	0.0009
Fetch class attribute name	0.0005	0.0357	1	0.0005
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0001	0.0087	1	0.0001
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0002	1	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0007	0.0481	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0007	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
8	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
5	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 19 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0002 secs