Not sure if in wrong section, but couldn’t see where it might otherwise go!
I need to offer up my site in different languages and have all subdomains forwarding to my main www.
eg
fr.domain.co.uk -> displays www.domain.co.uk
So i need to add some code in the htaccess to take the ‘fr’ part of the domain and send it to eg
What’s the best way to do this?
but why?
Why don’t you want to stay at fr.domain.co.uk?
well really i havent decided exactly the best way to do this!
I just actually found this which works:
RewriteCond $1 !^forum/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forum\.example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) /forum/$1 [L]
This will mean duplicating all files in the subfolder fr/
As most of my site is dynamically driven off several php files (+ mysql db), what is the best way to do multi language design?
What’s the technology do you use for subdomain forwarding?
Your web-server must be set up to handle subdomains without redirecting.
so, request fr.domain.co.uk -> displays the same fr.domain.co.uk
nothing else you need.
correct, but then i need to process which language was being called and apply that to the scripts.
But you already know which language was being called!
Why to use HTTP_HOST in mod rewrite if you can use it in your script?