Hi,

one customer had this request:

creating a mobile version of the website (mobile.customer.com), with a different layout, other sizes of images etc., but exactly the same content. 

First I experimeted with the altTemplate parameter and some url rewriting. I did not manage to get this running.

Then I created a copy of the website, that is connected to the same umbraco database. I modified the templates (different layout, different CSS included etc.) and some XSLT-files (mainly to use the images from the "main" website, and also other dimesions for the images, that are displayed with imagegen). This works very well, except that when content is changed or added, this is not reflected on the mobile version.

I can force to push the changes with http://mobile.domain.com/umbraco/dialogs/republish.aspx?xml=true , but I am looking for a way to reflect the changes automatically.

Also I thought it should be possible to get the same result
1) by touching web.config, OR
2) recycling ApplicationPool Or
3) deleting /App_data/umbraco.config

None of the above worked.

I am awhere, that this approach has some drawbacks, like update process must be done for two sites, modifications in XSLT or dlls must be done twice, so if there is better approach, please let me know.

Websites are running with umbraco v 4.11.4 (Assembly version: 1.0.4780.19111)

I would like to know how I could get the mobile version to reflect changes of the main website automatically.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Christian