PRESTASHOP NEW VERSION 1.1

[Ann]

Is it at last a real multi language shop ? Or still the same old referencement trouble when it comes to foreign languages ?

[Bruno Leveque]

Hi Ann,

It depends on your domain names, eg. fr.ann-secrets.com (type n#1) or ann-secrets.com (type n#2).

You might modify you .htaccess file within your type in order to prevent from duplicate content.

Best regards,

[Dave Egerton]

Excellent work, there is certainly a lot of new stuff here

I look forward to installing and playing with all the new features to see how these work

many thanks

[Ann]

Hi Ann,

It depends on your domain names, eg. fr.ann-secrets.com (type n#1) or ann-secrets.com (type n#2).

You might modify you .htaccess file within your type in order to prevent from duplicate content.

Best regards,

Thanks a lot for the answer. I 'd be glad to know more about the .ht access file in order to enable this !

Ann

[cactusman2]

I don't really understand what you mean...
Is it possible to use the same cart in different languages and with different urls (ie: subdomains?)
If yes how do you do that?

[Ann]

When using an HTML site , the foreign TITLE and meta description remain in their language. With the V1 , foreign pages are read by Google and others in the default language chosen at the back office, so customers cant' understand ( and won't find using their keywords ), the requested pages.

Is this problem solved with the 1.1 ? This is the meaning of the question . If this isn't solved, I'm am afraid I won't have any other choice than choosing another virtual shop that can be easily referenced .

I sell mainly abroad and I loose a lot knowing the Titles and descriptions of my english pages can't be translated .

[Dave Egerton]

Hi Ann,

It does not look like you use stock levels in the shops. I wonder, as you have several domains if it would actually be better to have several shops, each a copy of Prestashop, but optimised for each country and hosted on a server in that country.

This would provide a lot of flexibility, allow you to style the site according to local audience, optimise the site for the popular keywords in that country etc as well as solve your language issue. Your stats would be per country and your copy can be 100% targetted to users in that country.

Its only a thought of course, but if SEO is really important, separate shops might give your the greatest flexible to target and grow revenues.

[Ann]

Hi Ann,

It does not look like you use stock levels in the shops. I wonder, as you have several domains if it would actually be better to have several shops, each a copy of Prestashop, but optimised for each country and hosted on a server in that country.

This would provide a lot of flexibility, allow you to style the site according to local audience, optimise the site for the popular keywords in that country etc as well as solve your language issue. Your stats would be per country and your copy can be 100% targetted to users in that country.

Its only a thought of course, but if SEO is really important, separate shops might give your the greatest flexible to target and grow revenues.

I quite agree with your post and I thank you for your answer. The only drawback I see to this way of working is the difficulty of running stocks with separate basis when running thousands of items. And no one has been able yet to give me the answer why what is working with other e-shops is impossible with Presta.

[Dave Egerton]

Hi Ann

Yes, I can see the problem if you want to maintain one stock system. We have built a few sites using magento, this has the multi-shop capability, but a single back-end.

I wonder, multi-shops is on the coming soon list for Prestashop. If that has the capabilty to allow you to configure different front ends for each location but the option to specify "use stock per shop" or "use stock gloabally in all shops" that would be a nice solution

I also talked about multi-warehouse before, which I hope will come in 1.3 or 1.4. This would be great also where anyone wants to either have multiple web shops with one lot of stock, but different warehouses or allow users to "pick up from local store", but I have no idea what will be part of the multi-shop functionality.

[iiwwii]

Hi Ann,

It depends on your domain names, eg. fr.ann-secrets.com (type n#1) or ann-secrets.com (type n#2).

You might modify you .htaccess file within your type in order to prevent from duplicate content.

Best regards,

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for you good solution.


As your solutions:

I defined two domains www.AAA.com and fr.AAA.com

My own server is win2003 +IIS,I use isapi_rewrite full version successful for one website.
but I don't know how to write the rule for the two domains.
Anymore,It seems need change the flag url link also.

Can you help me ?

First site:

[iSAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteCond Host: www\.AAA\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*).html$ $1/product.php?id_product=$2 #doesn't work
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) $1/category.php?id_category=$2 #it works

Second site:

RewriteCond Host: fr\.AAA\.com

RewriteRule ^/([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*).html$ /product.php?id_product=$1&id_lang=3 #doesn't work
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) $1/category.php?id_category=$2&id_lang=3 #???



I think if it works,the google will save results for bot domains and two languages.

I really need this function.I think it is very usefull.


thanks very much in advance

[iiwwii]

Another probably solution. Maybe we can change the source code to get the cookie as the subdomain,

If the domain addressed is www.AAA.com, then the language cookie is for english.


If the domain addressed is fr.AAA.com, then the language cookie is for french.

If the domain addressed is es.AAA.com, then the language cookie is for spainish.

but I don't know where and how to edit.