URL redirection

[DML73]

Lets say I have a domain called www.e x a m p l e.de in German and one called www.e x a m p l e.co.uk in English. I have English (default) and German language packages installed in my Zencart.
When users go to www.e x a m p l e.de I want them to land on the German version and if they go to www.e x a m p l e.co.uk I want them to land on the English version.
I assume that I will need some kind of URL redirection in my host's cPanel, but how is this exactly done? How can I redirect www.e x a m p l e.de to the German version of Zencart and www.e x a m p l e.co.uk to the English version??

[mc12345678]

Lets say I have a domain called www.e x a m p l e.de in German and one called www.e x a m p l e.co.uk in English. I have English (default) and German language packages installed in my Zencart.
When users go to www.e x a m p l e.de I want them to land on the German version and if they go to www.e x a m p l e.co.uk I want them to land on the English version.
I assume that I will need some kind of URL redirection in my host's cPanel, but how is this exactly done? How can I redirect www.e x a m p l e.de to the German version of Zencart and www.e x a m p l e.co.uk to the English version??

So, pleaase forgive me that I don't have significant experience with redirection from a url alone, but basically I would think that you would use your htaccess, such that if the host was, x: and the "language" option was not present then to set the language redirect to the applicable language. If it was set leave it alone...

This would be accomplished using the url rewrite options/settings. But that is my late night Friday ideas. :)

[DML73]

Thanks for the suggestion. I now found out that I first have to point both domain names to the same server, and then setup the right code in htaccess. Does anybody have an example of the code I would need to enter in htaccess?

[mc12345678]

Thanks for the suggestion. I now found out that I first have to point both domain names to the same server, and then setup the right code in htaccess. Does anybody have an example of the code I would need to enter in htaccess?

Hmm, so I'm personally trying to figure out how this would be done as well... Are uplanning on having a single set of files to reference, but just the correct language show up? If done this way, seems you will have to pick a domain name to use as the base server name, otherwise you could have two directories for your store, both pointing to the same database, that way the uri would remain as whatever one they entered. Maybe use a plugin that "manages" multiple sites. Reason for the multiple site perspective though would be that the mailing address of the german sitemay need to be different than the mailing address to the other site as entered in the my store area of the store.

So, thinking that you would want to describe here how you want to have your site setup/look to be able toget the answers you seek.

[RodG]

Thanks for the suggestion. I now found out that I first have to point both domain names to the same server, and then setup the right code in htaccess. Does anybody have an example of the code I would need to enter in htaccess?

Try this:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/redirection-by-language/

Cheers
RodG

[setyadwi]

Try this:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/redirection-by-language/

Cheers
RodG

I will try it on my site, and again asked if an error occurs. Thank you

[DML73]

I have two domain names pointing to the same server:
www.example.co.uk (English language)
and
www.example.de (German language)

The content is the same except that www.example.co.uk is in English and www.example.de is in German.

How can I by using htaccess force a visitor that goes to:
http://www.example.co.uk
to land on:
http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?m...ex&language=en
and stay within the English language pack regardless of which page he navigates to (except if he manually change the language at the language selection bar).

And the same for www.example.de:
force a visitor that goes to:
http://www.example.de
to land on:
http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?m...ex&language=de

I have been trying to use this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.www.example\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?language=en [NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.www.example\.de [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?language=de [NC,QSA]

but this appears to do nothing.
Any help is much appreciated.

[RodG]

I have been trying to use this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.www.example\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?language=en [NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.www.example\.de [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?language=de [NC,QSA]

but this appears to do nothing.
Any help is much appreciated.

I think you're on the right track, BUT......

^www\.www\.example.......................

This will almost certainly never find a match. Re-write these as
^www\.example............ (only one 'www')

Also, in the 1st RewriteCond you are missing the escape character "\" before the "." in "uk".
Should be
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.co\.uk [NC]

In addition to this, it would be prudent to check for the same conditions *without* the 'www'.

Cheers
RodG

[DML73]

Thanks for the comment RodG, it now seems to be partly working, when I land on the index pages; www.example.co.uk is in English and www.example.co.uk is in German however as soon as I click on a link on the English site it changes to www.example.de and the German language.
When I go to www.example.de it does stay on the German language however, even when I click a link.
It also appears as the css file and image directory are not being read because the sites are displayed without images and css styling.

I suspect at least there is something wrong with the rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?language=de [NC,QSA]

Should the "index.php?language=de" be changed to something different?

[RodG]

Should the "index.php?language=de" be changed to something different?

Sorry, but I honestly couldn't say. I'm really not all that familiar with how ZenCart handles different languages. In fact if it wasn't for your example I would never have thought about rewriting the URL's to select a different language.

My previous input was based purely on the things that I could see were wrong, which isn't quite the same thing as telling you the things that could be right.

Offhand, I can't see what would be wrong with this current rewriteRule. It *looks* like it should be right.

What are you seeing in the browser URL for any given request?

What you *should* be seeing (if the rewrites are working correctly) is something like

www.example.de/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=57  being rewritten as 
www.example.de/index.php?language=de&main_page=index&cPath=57  or 
www.example.de/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=57&language=de  

and 
www.example.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=57  being rewritten as 
www.example.uk/index.php?language=en&main_page=index&cPath=57 or  
www.example.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=57&language=en

Again, I've no idea whether these will give you the *results* you desire because that would depend on how the URI is parsed by ZenCart, but it will confirm whether the rewrites are being performed or not.

Cheers
RodG

ps. Could you give us/me the URL for the site(s). Offhand I don't know of any site that is using multiple languages (Although I'm sure there are lots of them around), and it would be useful to see this in action.