This is kind of driving me crazy.

Tried to edit the hosts.htc file but no success:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1localhost.nl

Is it possible to have multiple domains on a local machine anyway?

thanks for your advice,

Anthony

You could simply try /nl for a hostname instead of localhost/nl. It might also be related to this: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/28790-Multiple-multilingual-website-hostname-problem.

Jeroen

Hi Anthony

Is there any reason why you do localhost/nl instead of localhost.nl?

/Jan

@ jeroen, jan

I solved the issue like this:

set my hosts file like this:

127.0.0.1 nl.local
127.0.0.1 fr.local

I also configured the host headers in iis and I set the host names on the 'nl' and 'fr' nodes respectively to:

nl.local
language (Dutch Belgium)

fr.local
language (French Belgium)

Everything works fine.

The only thing I wonder about, if it is possible to have one domainname

eg. www.vespasympa.be/nl/home.aspx

instead of a subdomain like

www.nl.vespasympa.be/home.aspx

 greetings,

Anthony

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the advice, I will try it out and let you know if it works.

greetings,

Anthony

Hi Jan,

Maybe your not an expert in this matter but your advice worked well!

I configured the content tree as you suggested:

the managed hostname settings for the language nodes (nl, fr) are:

domain: localhost/nl
language: Dutch (Belgium)

and

domain: localhost/fr
language: French (Belgium) 

Also the url rewrite in the UrlRewriting.config file, as suggested by Sebastiaan Janssens in the blogpost "the ultimate site structure setup" still seems to work:

        virtualUrl= "^~/home$"

        rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"

        destinationUrl="~/"

        ignoreCase="true"

        redirect="Application"

        redirectMode="Permanent" />

I wonder from an SEO perspective which is the best solution for a multilingual website. To use url's like this:

http://www.nl.vespasympa.be/home.aspx
http://www.fr.vespasympa.be/accueil.aspx ;

or to have url's like this:

http://www.vespasympa.be/nl/home.aspx
http://www.vespasympa.be/fr/accueil.aspx

 Thanks for the help and advice,

Anthony

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