Jacques Traore:
Our website (http://172.x.x.x:8080/web/compagny-name/home) has an English and French versions. By default, the En version is applied and a "Fr" link in the website lets you switch to the French one (http://172.x.x.x:8080/fr/web/compagny-name/home). We created 2 domain names: www.mywebsite.com and www.mywebsitefr.com. Both are mapped to the same IP:port(172.x.x.x:8080). The problem is the Fr domain name (www.mywebsitefr.com) brings you to the default version (English) and you have to click on the "Fr" link to reach the French one. I wanted www.mywebsitefr.com brings you directly to http://172.x.x.x:8080/fr/web/compagny-name/home and www.mywebsite.com on http://172.x.x.x:8080/web/compagny-name/home. I have no idea how to do that and what/where should I search for that.
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I use apache2 in front of liferay/tomcat and use mod_jk (to connect apache to tomcat listening at port 8009), mod_rewrite (for very profound capability over rewrites), as well as other apache modules like mod_ssl, and then plain old apache redirects
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Question: I'd be curious to know what approach you are using to 'map' from www.mywebsite.com and www.mywebsitefr.com to *someip*:8080 ... mod_proxy ? or ?
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in my case I have a sophisticated series of patented gold plated multi-dimensional engine cogs that collectively manifest to create desired whimsical and healthy outcomes
while such might not fit your use case, if with apache2 in front, you might choose www.mywebsite.com as _the_ virtualhost set in liferay for the liferay site, use mod_jk, and then also create a permanent redirect to point www.mywebsitefr.com to www.mywebsite.com/fr/ including passing along request parameters... if you choose to config your portal to avoid the language prefix, like 'fr', I have a French/English/TraditionalChinese site that also passes in at redirect config an additional parameter like &langid=en_EN which then in code sets the locale on rendering...