Ecommerce mount points hard-coded to multiple languages

[Mike Z]

I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
languages.  For instance:

http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
...etc..

Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
have to do fancy Apache redirects.

I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
a site to be indexed in multiple languages.

Does anyone have an example on how to do this?

[BJ Freeman]

this is accomplished internal to ofbiz
single url.
the Language is selectable by user.
you can create a URL that add the language selection in the parm list.


Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 10:43 AM:

> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
> languages.  For instance:
>
> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
> ...etc..
>
> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>
> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>
> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>

[Mike Z]

The demo ecommerce app already allows a USER to select a language.
What I'm interested in setting the locale based on the  mount point.
I thought that maybe the place to do this would be
specialpurpose/ecommerce/ofbiz-component.xml.

   <webapp name="ecommerce"
        title="eCommerce"
        locale="fr"                        <--------------------
        server="default-server"
        location="webapp/ecommerce"
        mount-point="/ecommerce"
        app-bar-display="false"/>

Doesn't work (sadly)

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> this is accomplished internal to ofbiz
> single url.
> the Language is selectable by user.
> you can create a URL that add the language selection in the parm list.
>
>
> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 10:43 AM:
>> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
>> languages.  For instance:
>>
>> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
>> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
>> ...etc..
>>
>> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
>> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
>> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>>
>> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
>> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>>
>> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>>
>

[BJ Freeman]

you would have to modify the contextfilter defined in the web.xml
by that I mean change the code in the java class.
currently mydomain.com/control is the way ofbiz works
you can have many eccommerce clones each with a mount point like
mount-point="/fr-ecommerce

Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 11:21 AM:

> The demo ecommerce app already allows a USER to select a language.
> What I'm interested in setting the locale based on the  mount point.
> I thought that maybe the place to do this would be
> specialpurpose/ecommerce/ofbiz-component.xml.
>
>    <webapp name="ecommerce"
>         title="eCommerce"
>         locale="fr"                        <--------------------
>         server="default-server"
>         location="webapp/ecommerce"
>         mount-point="/ecommerce"
>         app-bar-display="false"/>
>
> Doesn't work (sadly)
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> this is accomplished internal to ofbiz
>> single url.
>> the Language is selectable by user.
>> you can create a URL that add the language selection in the parm list.
>>
>>
>> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 10:43 AM:
>>> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
>>> languages.  For instance:
>>>
>>> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
>>> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
>>> ...etc..
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
>>> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
>>> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
>>> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>>>
>>
>

[BJ Freeman]

correction
mydomain.com/Mountpoint/control

BJ Freeman sent the following on 9/7/2011 11:26 AM:

> you would have to modify the contextfilter defined in the web.xml
> by that I mean change the code in the java class.
> currently mydomain.com/control is the way ofbiz works
> you can have many eccommerce clones each with a mount point like
> mount-point="/fr-ecommerce
>
> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 11:21 AM:
>> The demo ecommerce app already allows a USER to select a language.
>> What I'm interested in setting the locale based on the  mount point.
>> I thought that maybe the place to do this would be
>> specialpurpose/ecommerce/ofbiz-component.xml.
>>
>>    <webapp name="ecommerce"
>>         title="eCommerce"
>>         locale="fr"                        <--------------------
>>         server="default-server"
>>         location="webapp/ecommerce"
>>         mount-point="/ecommerce"
>>         app-bar-display="false"/>
>>
>> Doesn't work (sadly)
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> this is accomplished internal to ofbiz
>>> single url.
>>> the Language is selectable by user.
>>> you can create a URL that add the language selection in the parm list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 10:43 AM:
>>>> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
>>>> languages.  For instance:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
>>>> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
>>>> ...etc..
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
>>>> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
>>>> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
>>>> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>>>>
>>>
>>

[Mike Z]

Thanks BJ.  I'll check it out.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> you would have to modify the contextfilter defined in the web.xml
> by that I mean change the code in the java class.
> currently mydomain.com/control is the way ofbiz works
> you can have many eccommerce clones each with a mount point like
> mount-point="/fr-ecommerce
>
> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 11:21 AM:
>> The demo ecommerce app already allows a USER to select a language.
>> What I'm interested in setting the locale based on the  mount point.
>> I thought that maybe the place to do this would be
>> specialpurpose/ecommerce/ofbiz-component.xml.
>>
>>    <webapp name="ecommerce"
>>         title="eCommerce"
>>         locale="fr"                        <--------------------
>>         server="default-server"
>>         location="webapp/ecommerce"
>>         mount-point="/ecommerce"
>>         app-bar-display="false"/>
>>
>> Doesn't work (sadly)
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> this is accomplished internal to ofbiz
>>> single url.
>>> the Language is selectable by user.
>>> you can create a URL that add the language selection in the parm list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike sent the following on 9/7/2011 10:43 AM:
>>>> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
>>>> languages.  For instance:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
>>>> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
>>>> ...etc..
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
>>>> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
>>>> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
>>>> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

[hans_bakker]

create different webapp definitions in the same ofbiz-component.xml
pointing to the same webapp location using different virtual hosts and
mount points and using different product stores via the website in
web.xml

some help can be found here:
http://www.antwebsystems.com/control/ViewBlogArticle?contentId=18704

Regards,
Hans

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On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:43 -0700, Mike wrote:

> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
> languages.  For instance:
>
> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
> ...etc..
>
> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>
> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>
> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?

[Mike Z]

I solved this problem by making a slight modification to:

applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/product/ProductEvents.java

As outlined in the following Jira:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4412

There is a simple patch available.

>
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:43 -0700, Mike wrote:
>> I'm interested in having multiple mount points to support various
>> languages.  For instance:
>>
>> http://www.domain.com/en/control/main
>> http://www,domain.com/fr/control/main
>> ...etc..
>>
>> Is there an easy way to force ofbiz (hopefully using a single website
>> store)  to render a certain language based on mount point, or do I
>> have to do fancy Apache redirects.
>>
>> I'm hoping that doing this, along with using sitemaps.xml would allow
>> a site to be indexed in multiple languages.
>>
>> Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
>
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