My client has a website for Australia running on Umbraco 4.6.2 which he wants to duplicate and run as a seperate website for New Zealand. Most of the content is going to be same except for few pages like contact us and some external links.
The task looked simple and I wanted to test (in development system) the concept of running multiple websites from one Umbraco installation. As stated in the below tutorial, I copied the top level node in content section and named it "Home NZ". Then changed host headers for "Home AU" and "Home NZ". I configured my IIS Express to run two websites using the different host headers and then published both the nodes. I changed some content (some plain text) on contact us pages in AU and NZ sites so that I can ensure that right content is being picked up.
Now came the issue, both the AU and NZ domains were up and running but NZ site will always show content from AU section. Links on NZ site will take me to the pages in AU domain (relative paths should take me to NZ pages).
Initially I thought the issue is at the IIS Express, and tried to resolve it. I did shout down the AU site and ran only NZ site but still showing AU content; used different port number, used no port number (run sites on default port 80) with same result. I have now hit the roadblock and don't know what to check next.
Hope you have applied the hostname on the root level of your site and also what are links to a page within Aus content.
Can you check whether both the page link i.e "link to document" and "Alternative link" have domain prefixes? If not then IIS will match any page with any domain name supplied to it.
Thanks for your response Aneesh. Both the "link to document" and "Alternative Link" appears with domain prefixes. But whenever I try to visit any URL for NZ site it takes me to the AU based URL.
Oh then I guess you have setup the multisite perfectly and it's the geo-targetting that's redirecting you to the aus site based on your geo-location. Try disabling your geo-target code and check your NZ site
Is this the case for all of your links (menu, etcetera) or just for a few? I guess that if you're using a node picker for defining the links the nodes that are picked maybe will still link to the original site.
Thank you all for your responses. The problem was neither in Umbraco nor in IIS Express setup. It was a custom written piece of code that was causing all the havoc. Classic example of when you takeover a software written by someone else.
Unable to run multiple sites in one Umbraco Installation
Hi,
My client has a website for Australia running on Umbraco 4.6.2 which he wants to duplicate and run as a seperate website for New Zealand. Most of the content is going to be same except for few pages like contact us and some external links.
The task looked simple and I wanted to test (in development system) the concept of running multiple websites from one Umbraco installation. As stated in the below tutorial, I copied the top level node in content section and named it "Home NZ". Then changed host headers for "Home AU" and "Home NZ". I configured my IIS Express to run two websites using the different host headers and then published both the nodes. I changed some content (some plain text) on contact us pages in AU and NZ sites so that I can ensure that right content is being picked up.
Now came the issue, both the AU and NZ domains were up and running but NZ site will always show content from AU section. Links on NZ site will take me to the pages in AU domain (relative paths should take me to NZ pages).
Initially I thought the issue is at the IIS Express, and tried to resolve it. I did shout down the AU site and ran only NZ site but still showing AU content; used different port number, used no port number (run sites on default port 80) with same result. I have now hit the roadblock and don't know what to check next.
The links I followed:
http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/umbraco-fundamentals/running-multiple-sites.aspx
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/recommendations/recommended-reading-for-web-developers/webmatrix-running-multiple-sites-in-one-umbraco-instance
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/running-multiple-websites-on-one-umbraco-installation
http://forums.asp.net/t/1924582.aspx/1?Run+two+websites+with+different+host+name+in+IISExpress+
Any help would be gladly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sudipta
HI Sudipta,
Hope you have applied the hostname on the root level of your site and also what are links to a page within Aus content.
Can you check whether both the page link i.e "link to document" and "Alternative link" have domain prefixes? If not then IIS will match any page with any domain name supplied to it.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Thanks for your response Aneesh. Both the "link to document" and "Alternative Link" appears with domain prefixes. But whenever I try to visit any URL for NZ site it takes me to the AU based URL.
Oh then I guess you have setup the multisite perfectly and it's the geo-targetting that's redirecting you to the aus site based on your geo-location. Try disabling your geo-target code and check your NZ site
Hi Sudipta,
Is this the case for all of your links (menu, etcetera) or just for a few? I guess that if you're using a node picker for defining the links the nodes that are picked maybe will still link to the original site.
Hope it helps,
Jeffrey
Thank you all for your responses. The problem was neither in Umbraco nor in IIS Express setup. It was a custom written piece of code that was causing all the havoc. Classic example of when you takeover a software written by someone else.
Thanks,
Sudipta
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