multiple domains one website

fatnjazzy

hi,
i have a multi language website.
i didnt want to duplicate the code per language so I'm storing the language code in a session and include the translations static files by the language code.
that way I have to maintain only one website.
today, the navigation between the language is like this:
[url]http://www.***.com?lang_code=de[/url]

Now, i bought 6 domains foreach language
.com(English)
.de(German)
.co.il(hebrew).
ext....
the question is:
how can i make the domains to point to each language?
for example, if i enter to:[url]http://www..de[/url], i will always see the german version.

i own the server (if thats help)
and here is the configuration:
PHP Version 5.2.0
Apache Version Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.0 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Thanks

Roger_Ramjet

You do it with directives in http.conf

Best place to go for details on this is Apache

bastien

have a section on the index.html/php page to allow the user to choose the language. Set a cookie so when that user returns, the language set is automatic, but default to one language in case the cookie is deleted or the user is new.

You can also try $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] to get the users computers language setting, but remember that it may be set incorrectly....

You could also play games with IP geographic detection (there are lots of IP to country databases) where you guess the language based on the users IP

suntra

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] will return the host... so if it ends with ".fr", then you know the language has to be "French"...

Roger_Ramjet

People please read the post. He has multiple domains in multiple TLDs precisely to cater for multiple languages: ie .de = German, .il = Hebrew etc. German users will use the .de domain which will be listed on german search engines and indexed with the german text etc for the other languages.

Multiple domain names pointing to the same website means http.conf site aliase in any case and once you are into that you might just as well use a mod_rewrite rule to set the include path to the static language-specific files. That way the search engines will also get the right files and index it correctly.

Fatnjazzy, http.conf is pretty straightforward to work with, but if you have trouble there are loads of tutorials and forums around to help you, just google for mod rewrite.

fatnjazzy

Thanks all,
i will use httpd.conf to do it
Avi