change lang using htaccess and different domains ??

steamPunk

i have a question about htaccess and domains

I'll soon be starting a project that is in three different languages - i would like to put all the texts in a DB and pull out the correct one using a $lang variable in htaccess, like this

RewriteRule http://www.domain.com/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/$ test\.php?p_id=96&l=en

is there any reason why it wouldn't work if i changed the language var using the domain name

RewriteRule http://www.domain.com/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/$ test\.php?p_id=96&l=en
RewriteRule http://www.other-domain.cn/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/$ test\.php?p_id=96&l=cn

so that there are three domains that all point to the same server root and the htaccess rewrite would pick up the different domain names to decide the language to use.

I can't test this because haven't got the domains and stuff set up yet - it's still in the planning stage

do you think this would work ?

thanks for your help

Servyces

Use the RewriteCond directive to achieve this, for example:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ...

steamPunk

thanks for your reply

I have had a look on the web for info about RewriteCond but I'm not entirely sure how I would use it

Ideally I would like

RewriteRule http://www.domain.com/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/$ test\.php?p_id=96&l=en

to access the page test.php, get the english text and display

http://www.domain.com/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/

in the browser address bar, and also that

RewriteRule http://www.other-domain.cn/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/$ test\.php?p_id=96&l=cn

would access the exact same page test.php, get the chinese text and display

http://www.other-domain.cn/test-dir/test-sub-dir/test/

in the browser address bar

would the RewriteCond do that ?

thanks