Webstore Domains
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In Sana Admin click: System > Webstore domains.
On the Webstore domains page, a system administrator can see all domains that are used for your webstore.
After installing Sana Commerce Cloud, all your webstore domains specified during the project implementation will be automatically available on this page. If for some reason you need to change your webstore domain or add a new one, please contact your Sana Commerce representative.
If you have several webstore domains, one of them will be set as the default one during Sana Commerce installation. The default webstore domain is used to build canonical URLs. It is also used in certain scenarios to create a sitemap. If you want to change the default webstore domain, please contact your Sana Commerce representative.
Country-Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)
A single webstore can have several country-code top-level domains. A country-code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country.
Examples:
demoshop.de - for Germany
demoshop.us - for the USA
demoshop.ca - for Canada
You can use the country-code top-level domains if you are doing online business in different countries. This way one and the same webstore can be accessed from a separate country-code top-level domain and contain content in the language of that specific country.
Each domain should be assigned to the correct language. These are the languages that are installed with the language packs. For example, if you have the country-code top-level domain for the Netherlands (.nl), this domain should be assigned to the Dutch language. Do not use one and the same language for several domains.
When a user changes the language of the webstore, it automatically switches over to the country-code top-level domain of that language.
Multi-Lingual Webstore on a Single Domain
If you are not using the country-code top-level domains, you can still provide the content of your webstore in different languages. When a single domain is used for a webstore, for example, the international domain (.com), the language culture name will be shown in the URLs depending on the selected language in the webstore.
If your webstore is hosted on a single domain, do not assign any language to the webstore domain. Otherwise, webstore users will not be able to change webstore language.
Examples:
demoshop.com/nl-nl/ - for the Dutch language
demoshop.com/de-de/ - for the German language
demoshop.com/en-us/ - for the English language (USA)
The best approach is to use the country-code top-level domains as it shows that you are doing business in that particular country, but it is more expensive than using a single domain.
