[TYPO3-english] Best practice for multidomain and page-not-found-handling

[Patrick Rodacker]

Hi list,

I have a question regarding your opinions on the following issue. I have 
a multidomain setup where each domain has its own page tree. Some of the 
domains support multiple languages whereas each page tree has its own 
default language. So it's a mixture of a Multi- and Single-Tree concept.

Regarding the page-not-found-handling the goal was to define a pid via 
TypoScript for each page tree pointing to a page handling the 404 error 
content output. Since the setting 
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['pageNotFound_handling'] supports the usage of a 
user function (USER_FUNCTION:...) I have implemented a function which 
gets the page where the sys_domain record for the current domain is 
located. Then I initialize part of the TSFE object with this page and 
read the template to get the pid from TypoScript.  I also use a local 
instance of tslib_content (cObj) for correct typolinks (realurl).

In my opinion this is kind of a "dirty approach" and I wonder if there 
there is a better way to implement configurable 404 error pages, which 
could be easily edited and localized from within the backend.

I appreciate any ideas on this topic or hints to a different approach.

Best regards
Patrick