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Ticket: Can and how do I use top level domains instead of appending country codes to the URL?

Status	Resolved
Add-on / Version	Publisher 1.0.15
Severity	Trivial
EE Version	2.7

Geoff Lewin

Nov 18, 2013

Hi Support

I’m thinking of using Publisher on a new multilingual site and the client wants to use top level domains and point country specific urls to each site… so we are going to use the following:

French-site.fr
Spanish-site.eu
Portuguese.pt
Italian.it
Germany.de

Are there any guidelines on setting this type of installation up using publisher and expression engine?

Thanks
Geoff

BoldMinded (Brian)

Hi, Geoff. This is certainly possible, but you’ll need to write a bit of PHP. In your config.php file you’ll need to do something like this:

switch ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) {
    case 'site.fr': $config['publisher_lang_override'] = 'fr';
    case 'site.eu': $config['publisher_lang_override'] = 'eu';
}

Geoff Lewin

So just to clarify using this type of approach would enable me to use these domains to show my languages from ee / publisher? www.myfrenchsite.fr www.myspanishsite.es www.mygermansite.de

Would I need to still add an additional segment to the URL for the current language. As this example, www.myspanishsite.es/es/some/page.

Thanks for the advise. Geoff

BoldMinded (Brian)

Yes, that approach will work and you won’t need to add the prefix.

Geoff Lewin

If I was to use the approach above should I add my domains as a Parked or Addon in cPanel?

BoldMinded (Brian)

I don’t know, you will have to figure that one out yourself.