Hide folder in url (htaccess?) on multilanguage-site

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ceer10 Reply #1, 14 years, 11 months ago

Hi!

Following situation:
I've got a site running under "www.domain.de" and the same under "www.domain.com".
The whole content shall now be updated, so i installed modx for content-managing.
The modx-installation runs under domain.de/modx/
Because the site should be visible in german and english, i created two contexts ('web' for german and 'web2' for english language)
Now i want to achieve, that when a user calls "domain.de/xy" the site under domain.de/modx/index.php?id=2" loads and the url that is visible for the visitor is still "domain.de/xy".
The equivalent for the ".com-Domain" where the "modx-folder" should also be hidden and where the modx-cms automatically chosses the context for english language ("web2").

Is that possible or have i to move the whole content to the root-directory first (where the old site is still running) ?

I hope there is someone who can help me out...

Thank you!!!
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Wanze Reply #2, 14 years, 11 months ago
I have this situation solved with RewriteRules. In my webroot - .htaccess file i have those lines:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^manager$ /modx/manager/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.de$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourdomain\.de$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/modx/
RewriteRule (.*) /modx/$1
```
You would have to check the HTTP_HOST variable also for yourdomain.com.

Next modx needs to know which context (language) should be loaded. This can be done by a plugin.
Check this out:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Using+One+Gateway+Plugin+to+Manage+Multiple+Domains

I can recommend you the "Babel" Extra. It's great for managing multilingual sites and there are also some great tutorials out there:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/Babel
http://www.butter.com.hk/blog/posts/2010/08/internationalization-in-modx-revolution.html
or (another, more SEO friendly solution):
http://www.multilingual-modx.com/blog/2011/seo-friendly-multilingual-websites-with-modx-and-babel.html