How to use Polylang with different domains ?

Hi!

How to do exactly is much dependent on your host. You have to setup all your domains. They must all point to the same directory (the one where you installed WordPress). You don’t need to have a multisite install. Once your domains are all ready (it may take 24h or more with some host providers), Check that you WordPress site is accessible from all your domains.

Once you have checked that everything is OK, you can activate Polylang and assign your domains to your languages in Polylang settings.

Ok, that means I have to redirect every domain name towards the same one, right ? B & C redirect to A.

I tried that, and got a circular redirection. Because if site B is going to site A, then I tell Polylang language X is on site B. Which goes to A…
And there we go.
It is something I tested, I must be forgeting something, but it didn’t work.

Merci pour ton aide.
Arnaud

You must not make B & C redirect to A.

When you define a new domain, you must choose a directory where this domain will have its files. Just make your 3 different domains pointing all to the same directory.

Sorry, I am still missing a point.
I can buy one domain name, make the DNS point to an IP.
The relation is between a domain name and an IP, that’s all.
If we go ddeper, an HTTP request (via port 80) is served by a server (Apache) that knows that it has to go to vhost (if I remember well).

So, what do you call “define a domain” ?

Thank you again.
Arnaud

Tons of domains can point to the same IP.

You put WordPress in a directory on a hard disk. In your setup, there is a way to associate your domain to this directory otherwise WordPress would never be loaded.

If you don’t know how to setup a domain, please ask support to your host provider.

Chouby

When you say “setup”, do you mean WP setup ? or DNS setup ?

I do know how to deal with a domain. Pointing different domains to the same directory is a redirection, that is what I wrote in my previous post.

I have done that, it ended in circular redirection: B redirecting to A, Polylang redirecting en_UK to B, no way to access B.

Im am sorry, but there is a tecchnical point here still missing.
Merci pour ton aide, je peux paramétrer mes DNS mais tu utilises le terme “setup” qui est trop imprécis.
Arnaud

When you say “setup”, do you mean WP setup ? or DNS setup ?

DNS.

Pointing different domains to the same directory is a redirection, that is what I wrote in my previous post.

No. You can point different domains to the same directory without redirection. The result is somewhat different. If site B redirects to site A, accessing to B/your-post will redirect you to A/your-post. If you just point the 2 domains to the same directory B/your-post will duplicate A/your-post.

To play with several domains with one single install of WordPress, you need the second kind of setup.

I googled a bit to find some doc which explains things better than me ??
This is just an example of how one host provider his handling that:
https://help.1and1.com/domains-c36931/manage-domains-c79822/domain-destination-c38672/set-up-or-change-the-destination-of-your-domain-a599292.html
In this doc, you see that the “redirect” is not checked and that you can choose a target directory.
The target directory is where you store the WordPress files. It must be the same for all your domains.

I don’t know if it could help, but DNS setup is here the same as for multisite installs using domain mapping.