I have a Joomla site which is based in one country (US). We've been tasked to create a UK/GB version of the site which has it's own domain, but shares the same common pages/posts/backend. About 75% of the pages are the same on both versions but there will be a few sections (like About and Contact) where they are different to account for regional differences.
Example
US site (www.example.com) has
Home About Services Contact UK Site (www.example.co.uk) has 3 pages
(2 different, 1 the same)
Home (The same as US, but the URL should be www.example.co.uk) About
(Different content, the URL should be www.example.co.uk/about)
Services (The same as US, but URL should be
www.example.co.uk/services) Contact (Different content, the URL
should be www.example.co.uk/contact)
How do I go about setting up the UK/GB version of the site which use the same backend and most of the same content from the base site, but has a few page differences and different domain?
I think you should somehow rely on the multilingual feature of Joomla! (http://multilingual-joomla-demo.cloudaccess.net/multi-lingual-steps-by-steps.html)
Define for example languages for US / UK. Pages that are identical for both, just leave the language setting to "All".
For the rest specify the language.
Hope this helps.
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I want to make automatic routing for my web site using Magento 2 according to the country. How can I do it?
You can use Auto Switch Language and Currency - Magento 2 ® Extensions for this. With the help of this Magento 2 auto switch language and currency extension, the eCommerce store owner can run the online store business all over the world.
This auto switch language plugin automatically sets the language and currency according to the customer’s geographical location. It switches the language on the basis of the customer’s IP address. The e-merchant can also select a default language for every country. The Magento 2 auto switch language plugin offers a user-friendly interface.
I’m trying to create a Drupal 8 website with multi-country selection and more languages available for each Country.
For example, the visitor can select Belgium as his Country, then he should be able to select one of the languages related to Belgium: French and German, plus English (which should be available for all Countries).
I’ve installed two modules: Domain Access and Country Path.
Domain Access allow me to define different domains and sub-domains like fr.domain.com, it.domain.com, etc.
Using Country Path I should be able to create different path for the same domain based on Country selection, like domain.com/france, domain.com/italy etc. But unfortunately it’s not working properly…
Using sub-domains is not possible for my project and, even configuring Country Path, if I go to domain.com/france I always get a page not found error.
What I need in the end is this path/url structure: domain/country/language, like for example domain.com/belgium/fr or domain.com/belgium/en.
Do you had any experience with this situation? Any idea or suggestion about modules to try or core configurations that can solve this?
You should definitely try Internationalization module.
It will provide you with content translation,different path for the same domain based on Country selection and language switcher block.
default looking language switcher
Today I came across following situation
I have a joomla and jomsocial site (http://www.mydomain.com) hosted on server. It has several custom (third party) components installed on it.
Now I want to upgrade this site to latest version of joomla and jomsocial. Hurdle is some third party components are not yet compatible with the latest version.
So I am planning to host these components on subdomain (http://mycomponent.mydomain.com)
Now the conditions I have are
User must be same for both the site.
If user logs in to main site and then opens subdomain (using link provided on main site), he should be logged in to subdomain and vice versa (i.e. Single Sign On)
Database can be different for both sites.
I am not getting a idea, how to proceed with this. I am thinking about using web services to communicate with main site.
Any suggestions or links to guide will be appreciated.
Thanks
There are Extension on JED which provide Single Sign On functionality to joomla. If they work may depend on your versions of Joomla...
I have searched the entire Joomla Extension Directory .But could not find a component which meets my requirments.
I need a joomla component for seminar listing.
To post seminars and Training. Visitor to the site should be able to post training and seminars(But publish after admin approval) .
I can buy commercial components also.
Thank you
You could use a directory component like Mosets Tree. It allows visitors to post listings subject to admin approval and comes with all the usual category features, modules, etc. Each listing will have it's own dedicated page with info, email, gallery, etc, all of which are togglable.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/directory/233
I think Sobi Pro offers similar functionality
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/directory/16649
This is what I’m trying to achieve on our dedicated server (Direct Admin):
1 Magento (1.6.2.0)
1 catalog
3 domains
domain.nl (is main and has the magento files)
domain.de (is domain alias, not Virtual Host, has no files at all)
domain.se (is domain alias, not Virtual Host, has no files at all)
3 languages
Dutch
German
Swedish
Shared Shopping Cart
SSL on Chekout
Let’s say a Dutch visitor is typing “product X” in Google and finds his product on our German site (domain.de). He adds it to the cart and likes to continue in Dutch. So he clicks the Dutch flag and should be able to checkout on domain.nl.
I tried a couple of things with the language. One way I had 3 websites, 1 for each domain and all with 3 stores, one for each language. So 9 stores and views in total. This was the only way I could get the flags showing. But most of the time the flag image was not showing because the code of the view had to be the 2 letter country code, which can only used once. And when I changed language (thus domain), the cart was not shared.
The other way I had 1 Website with 3 stores, one store and view for each language/domain. But in this case the language selector (flags) where not showing at all.
I’ve been reading allot about this. But all the (mostly old) topics or article I found are about a single subject and so different from each other that I cannot combine them into one.
Thanks for any help!!
Cheers,
Robert
I have played with this concept a bit and I believe this is how you would do it. Under Magento Admin->System->Manage Stores you would set up the following.
One Website (most likely Main Website)
One Store
Three Store Views (One for each language)
Then you will swing into System->Configuration. Select each specific language in the "Current Configuration Scope" then change General->Web->Unsecure->Base URL and General->Web->Secure->Base URL to the URL you want to use for each store. i.e. Your German configuration should not use the Website Setting and should be set to domain.de instead.
For each of your virtual hosts, configure them to all point to your single Magento install. When they come in with the specific URL Magento should route them to the proper language version and, if they select a flag, it should change to the other URL for that language.
Give this a try and let me know what your results are. I have only lightly played with this and have referenced these topics. I agree with you that this is an area that sometimes has too many ways it can be configured and not enough recommended ways.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/227246/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/4_-_themes_and_template_customization/navigation/multiple-website-setup