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  • Bo Damgaard Mortensen 719 posts 1207 karma points
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 12:00
    Bo Damgaard Mortensen
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    SEO issues when making a site multilingual

    Hi all,

    I'm about to make an already running site multilingual. My structure is as follows:

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    The client want the site to be accessible like so:

    The danish site should run on "www.theirdomain.dk" like it always have. The english site will then have to run on "www.theirdomain/en/"

    I've set the umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath to false in web.config to be able to access www.theirdomain.dk/en/, but then the danish site will have to be accessed from www.theirdomain.dk/da/ which is not ideal in terms of SEO and eventually shared URLs (i.e. www.theirdomain.dk/om) will be broken.

    Is there any way of doing this? I was thinking of some sort of URL rewriting, but I'm definitely not a master of that particular task.

    Any help/hint is greatly appreciated :-)

    Thanks in advance!

  • Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 12:06
    Jeroen Breuer
    100

    Hello,

    What version of Umbraco are you using?

    I think since 4.10 and higher you could just do this.

    Set the domain for the Danisch site to www.theirdomain.dk and set the domain for the English site to www.theirdomain.dk/en/ in the host names and it should just work.

    Jeroen

  • Bo Damgaard Mortensen 719 posts 1207 karma points
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 12:19
    Bo Damgaard Mortensen
    0

    Hiya Jeroen,

    Thanks a lot for your fast reply :-) appreciated!

    The site is running 4.9.1 unfortunately :-/ Tried setting the hostnames and set umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath back to true, but theirdomain.dk/en/about gives me an iis 404 page.

    Might aswell consider upgrading the site to 4.10 then.

    Thanks again!

  • Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 12:39
    Jeroen Breuer
    0

    If you upgrade you can go to 4.11.10 straight. The request pipeline in 4.9 and below is Completely Broken ™ and Stephan rewrote it to fix all these kind of issues so I recommend the upgrade.

    Jeroen

  • Bo Damgaard Mortensen 719 posts 1207 karma points
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 12:42
    Bo Damgaard Mortensen
    0

    Brilliant,

    Thanks a lot :-) I'll try updating the site to 4.11.10 then.

  • Bo Damgaard Mortensen 719 posts 1207 karma points
    Aug 11, 2014 @ 13:16
    Bo Damgaard Mortensen
    0

    Alright, just as a follow up on this.

    I've just upgraded the site to 4.11.10 now and the request pipeline is working just as it should. Thanks again Jeroen :-) h5yr!

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