any idea how it works ?

[chakrellah]

I have .com oscommerce shop.

i want to launch the .us / .fr / .co.uk how can I do that ??? (ofcourse using the same database - as its much easy for me to admin)

 

cheers.

[♥geoffreywalton]

Have you thought of setting up 3 shops each one running one language, 1 site with 1 currency and 2 with 2 currencies.

 

All pointing to 1 db holding prices in master currency.

 

Set shops to only display currency appropriate to site.

 

G

[wrangler]

...or, you can always set the .uk .fr etc sites to point to your main site (using web aliases and/or redirect). Not recommended as google dislikes it, but it's a way to do it.

[Jack_mcs]

Google doesn't care if a domain name is redirected as long as it is redirected properly.

 

Jack

[chakrellah]

what do mean by

redirected properly.

 

can you give me an example !!!

 

cheers.

[Jack_mcs]

"Properly" meaning that a redirect on the server is used as opposed to an html redirect. The redirect should also send back a 301 code for that domain name. Most, if not all, hosts have an option to "part" a domain name. If you can't find it in your control panel, ask your host how to part a domain name. They should be able to help you. Once that is done, the redirect will happen as it should.

 

Jack

[chakrellah]

thanks for the answer, I wrote an email to my host to ask for that.

meanwhile, I understood from different post that 301 is the best way to do a proper redirect !! is that right ?

 

So, for instance using .htaccess file with the below code in my-dot-fr-domain

 

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.my-dot-com-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

how my-dot-com-domain will understand that the request is coming from my-dot-fr-domain and thus switch automaticly the language + currencies (as defined in the includes/languages/fr.php)?

[Jack_mcs]

Yes, that's correct. But you shouldn't have to write the code - let the server handle it.

 

Jack