[TYPO3-english] Redirect from one Typo3 instance to another

[Oliver Rowlands]

Hi John,

Why not simply move your Chinese TYPO3 installation into a "china" 
folder inside your English web root?

HTH,

Oliver

John.C.Kennedy at LDHEnergy.com wrote:
> We currently have 2 Typo3 instances going. One is an English version of 
> our site, the other a Chinese version.
> We realize that it would be best to set up a virtual host in Typo3 to do 
> what we need but have been old otherwise by the powers that be.
> 
> What we have been told to do is to have:
> http://www.example.com
> go to the English instance and to have
> http://www.example.com/china 
> go to the Chinese instance.
> 
> I have tried to use the following in the (Apache) example.com vhost conf 
> file:
> 
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/china  /www/typo3.cn/htdocs/index.php
> 
> and 
> 
> RedirectMatch ^/china  /www/typo3.cn/htdocs/index.php
> 
> The Rewrite will point to an HTML version of the page and the 
> RedirectMatch will send to 
> http://www.example.com/china/www/typo3.cn/htdocs/index.php
> 
> We have also tried to create a Chinese version virtual host like:
> 
> <VirtualHost 10.20.230.165:80>
>         ServerName  www.example.com
>         ServerAlias  www.example.com
>         ServerAdmin webmaster at example.com
>         ServerPath /china
> 
>         DocumentRoot /www/typo3.cn/htdocs
>         ErrorLog        logs/typo3-error.log
>         CustomLog       logs/typo3-access.log combined
> 
>         AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>         DirectoryIndex  index.php index.html
> 
>         <Directory /www/typo3.cn>
>                 Options FollowSymLinks
>                 AllowOverride None
>         </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> What are we missing/doing wrong?

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