I have been doing some testing and I see some troubling stuff in Umbraco 4.7.0 but I'm not assuming the system could actually be this broken, so I'm posting here in the hope that somebody can explain how it should actually work. You can find the steps to reproduce below.

Basically I see 5 bugs, in the same order that they appear in the right hand column of the steps below:

1. The link that Umbraco displays for the first child of the first top-level node is not in a correct format, it will look like //name.aspx instead of /name.aspx (so there are two forward slashes).

2. It seems that after adding a second top-level node (ie. directly under the Content folder) visting any of its subpages will result in a 404 when you click the Link to document.

3. After adding a hostname to a top-level node, Umbraco will start displaying an Alternative link that is an exact duplicate to the 'normal' Link to document. if it's the same then clearly it's not an alternative.

4. After adding different hostnames to two top-level nodes, Umbraco will resolve URLs for a children of the top-level nodes to the first childnode it can find, regardless of that nodes' parent hostname. [I'm using the Visual Studio built-in development server with a fixed port :50151, but even adding the port to the end of the hostname doesn't help]

5. When choosing a childnode the second top-level node for the umbracoInternalRedirectId property of that top-level node, Umbraco will correclty save the ID of the selected node. But when the viewing the top-level node in the browser Umbraco will not render the correct node based on the ID, it will actually choose the first childnode of the first top-level node that matches the node name. [Same comment applies with regard to using Visual Studio and a fixed port]

Since 4.7.0 has been out for 6 weeks and I assume it has been tested, I'm not sure if I should log all of these as bugs. Can someone explain wether or not this is expected behavior? Steps to reproduce (copy to notepad for better view):

Preparation
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- Ensure language exists: English (United States)
- Add language: Dutch (Netherlands)

- Ensure umbracoSettings.config: useDomainPrefixes=true

- Delete all nodes
- Empty Recycle Bin
- Delete ~/App_Data/umbraco.config
- Right-click /Content > Republish entire site

- Create & publish page /Content/A (ID=1085)
- Link to document = /                                                          OK

Multiple top-level nodes
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- Create page /Content/B (ID=1086)
- Link tot document = /b.aspx                                                   OK

- Create & publish page /Content/A/Test (ID=1087)
- Link tot document = //test.aspx                                               BUG 1 (incorrect link)
- Try manual link /test.aspx                                                    OK

- Create & publish page /Content/B/Test (ID=1088)
- Link tot document = /b/test.aspx                                              BUG 2 (404)

- Create & publish page /Content/B/Testing (ID=1089)
- Link tot document = /b/testing.aspx                                           BUG (404)

Hostnames
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- Add hostname site.com.local to /Content/A
- Publish A and all its subnodes
- Link to document
    Node                Before hostname      After hostname
    /Content/A          /                  http://site.com.local                OK
                                     http://site.com.local                BUG 3 (not alternate)
    /Content/A/Test     //test.aspx        http://site.com.local/test.aspx      OK
                                           http://site.com.local/test.aspx      BUG 3 (not alternate)

- Add hostname site.nl.local to /Content/B
- Publish B and all its subnodes
- Link to document
    Node                Before hostname     After hostname (link+alternative link)
    /Content/B          /b.aspx             http://site.nl.local                BUG 4 (renders 1085, /Content/A)
                                            http://site.nl.local                BUG 3 (not alternate)
    /Content/B/Test     /b/test.aspx        http://site.nl.local/test.aspx      BUG 4 (renders 1087, /Content/A/Test)
                                            http://site.nl.local/test.aspx      BUG 3 (not alternate)
    /Content/B/Testing  /b/testing.aspx     http://site.com.local/testing.aspx  OK
                                            http://site.com.local/testing.aspx  BUG 3 (not alternate)

Using umbracoInternalRedirectId
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- Set /Content/A umbracoInternalRedirectId to /Content/A/Test
- Visiting http://site.com.local/ renders /Content/A/Test (1087)                OK
- Set /Content/B umbracoInternalRedirectId to /Content/B/Test
- Visiting http://site.nl.local/ renders /Content/A/Test (1087)                 BUG 5 (not /Content/B/Test)