How redirect visitors to different URLs to different pages in MODx?

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We have multiple domains pointing to the same directory with Modx install. It would be great if each could have it’s own site_start so that they start in different page with possible different language/template. Helps our multilanguage / multi site environment...

We would like to see:

www.mydomain.com starts on page 1
www.mydomain.nl starts on page id xx
www.mydomain.fr starts on page yy

or even

www.sometohther.com to page zz

etc.

After many hours of playing around, we have not found a good way to do this. Does anybody have an idea?

Help greatly appreciated:)
Tom

MODX Staff
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Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 20 years, 1 month ago

Wait for the glory of contexts in 1.0... Until then you could have each domain redirect to a specific page in MODx that is functionally a site-start for that language, and use Susan’s multi-language technique to manage the content.

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doze Reply #3, 20 years, 1 month ago

Subsites/Subdomains plugin probably could be usefull untill contexts arrives

"He can have a lollipop any time he wants to. That's what it means to be a programmer."

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Tom Reply #4, 20 years, 1 month ago

Thansk guys, both answers serve me very well... Doze for now, RT for future

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Tom Reply #5, 20 years, 1 month ago

... but now found a different solutions after I learned that the Subsites/Subdomains plugin was called on every page. It keeps chaning the site_start values every time a page is called. This slows things down. My idea is to redirect only once.

So, what I did was:

1. created a new file called: redirect.php

<?php
/* Redirect by TVld 15-09-2006*/

$host=strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
switch ($host) {
        case 'www.domainone.eu':
        	header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
                header("Location: http://www.domainone.eu/index.php?id=57");
                exit();
        case 'www.domaintwo.fr':
                header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
                header("Location: http://www.domaintwo.fr/index.php?id=89");
                exit();
        case 'www.domaintwo.com':
                header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
                header("Location: http://www.domaintwo.com/index.php?id=212");
                exit();
        default:
        		header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
                header("Location: index.php");
                exit();
        }
?>

2. created a new index.htm containing just:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=redirect.php">

3. and made a new .htaccess file:

# make sure we load index.htm first and not index.php as per default. This allows for a redirect from index.htm before going to the database

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.php

So far so good and I now have a very easy to rewrite redirect.php script. Visitors keep seeing the url they called in the browser as all domains point to the same directory.

Point of warning: I’m not familiar with friendly urls’ so don’t know if they still work and what the .htaccess should look liketo get them working!

Tom