[opencms-dev] Organising multilingual sites in OpenCms

[Claus Priisholm]

The example I was thinking about would be like 
www.example.com/US/customers.html and 
www.example.co.uk/UK/customers.html - you can set up the rewrites to 
ensure that the search engines never indexes /UK/customers.html as a 
part of the example.com domain. If you do not have a domain per language 
then this is not an issue.

If there are differences between say the UK and US content of a page (be 
it different prices, links to language dependent pages, images and so 
on), then you need to maintain two "copies" of the content - one per 
language. So if the UK contains a link to another UK page you will need 
to "translate" it to the relevant US link on the US variant of the page. 
  This is not automated out of the box since the link "translator" would 
have to know how you have organized and named your folders for this to 
work.

Anyway, you would do this with siblings unless your work flow dictates 
otherwise. Using siblings here gives you the advantage that you can 
define a default language and have that display if there is no 
translation available for the request locale.

Martin Wunderlich wrote:
> 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
>> To: The OpenCms mailing list
>> 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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