[opencms-dev] Organising multilingual sites in OpenCms

[Martin Wunderlich]

Hi Claus,

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. We have indeed the languages organised in folders under the root URL. I am not sure, if the siblings approach would work, though, since the pages would contain all the language dependent URLs (e.g. on the UK page you would have a link pointing www.salesforce.com/UK/customers/index.jsp). Am I understanding you correctly that this could be fixed with the rewrites? How would this work? Does the rewrite mechanism "know" which URL is was called from?

Cheers,

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-
> bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Claus Priisholm
> Sent: 17 June 2008 11:09
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> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Organising multilingual sites in OpenCms
>
> If you use the typical language dependent folder organisation (i.e.
> /en_US/... /en_UK/ and so forth, and use siblings, then your content is
> separate as much as you want it to be (it is still possible to have
> shared pages which are shown on all the English variants in case the
> contents happens to be the same for all variants).
>
> You can then use Apache to do permanent rewrites to the correct domains
> (assuming you need different domains) so that the search engines do not
> get confused.
>
> Martin Wunderlich wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was wondering, if anyone on this list has experience with
> organising a multilingual website in OpenCms. We have 12 languages at
> present and the list is growing. My question however relates to the
> four English pages that we currently maintain (US, UK, EU and Apac).
> The content is nearly identical, with some changing information such as
> pricing and contact details. For the search engine optimisation,
> though, we would like to keep the structure of the four different
> English sites. Is anyone doing something similar in OpenCms? What would
> be the best practice for maintaining this setup efficiently?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Martin
> >
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