[Resolved] different domains per language not working

pictures to post above 😉

Thanks!

Dear Bobby,

Thank you for your fast reply!

I´ve cross checked and there was a redirect plug active on the wp installation of the ....de domain when I started this support ticket. Sorry for that!But I´ve deactivated the plugin already on Friday evening and was hoping that it got resolved. But however it seems to be still not working.

When I look at the DNS settings of the one.com server that hostes our domains ( ...de and ...com) I´ve tried to add a A record as explained in the guide. However, the settings could not be applied because they´ve recognized that I wanted to redirect to a domain that one.com was hosting, too. Therefore they force me to use their internal forward. Please refer to the pictures in attachment.

When I go to the language settings page of WPML, I can see that the settings for alnguage URL are valid (same as already shared picture from initial post).

Do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

BR Robin

I´m in touch with the host provider. They seem to be unable to set up an A record of a self hosted domain...

Then I would need to move the domain to a different provider and hope that this will do the trick.

I´ll get back to this thread if I get the final response from one.com

Thanks for the moment!

Dear Bobby,

I´ve now moved the DE domain to a different host (1&1 IONOS), but the redirection seems to be still active. How is this possible?

I´ve deactivated the redirect plugin of the DE wordpress installation, then deleted the plugin, then deleted all files on the server and moved the DE domain to a different host? What else can I do? I´m kind of stuck. Any help is much aprreciated

Best regards,
Robin

Dear Bobby,

Thank you for your assistance!

The support from 1&1 has resolved the strange 301 redirection. Now I´ve done all settings according to the tutorial (link above) e.g. added an A record to our IP, namely 46.30.215.16, but it seems not to redirect to the harmonic-design.com. In the preview window of 1&1 it looks like the DE domain to be still active on a one.com domain. Or is it wrong setting up the A record?

I´ve also tried to use the standard forward function of 1&1. Then the COM homepage appears at the preview window but the WPML plugin doesn´t accept the settings.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

best regards,
Robin

Dear Bobby,

Thanks again for the input!

It seems that one.com cannot provide an IP adress of the server because multiple domains are hosted on the same server and their internal references are not able to relink correctly...

The only solution would be to move the whole webspace incl emails etc to another provider. But this is too much effort for the moment.

Therefore we´d like to switch the 3rd option: language as added parameter (hidden link - German). This works for the home page but if I´m within a subpage e.g.

hidden link

and then click on any link (picture) I´ll be forwarded to the correct page but reverted to English language. This happens at all pages when I click on a hyperlink within avada builder elements.

I´ve made a quick test with the first language option: Different languages in directories ((hidden link - English, hidden link - German)) with the same behaviour.

Any thoughs?

Thanks in advance

Dear Bobby,

Thanks for the hint.

I was assuming that the Plugin automatically adjusts the links that they point to the correct language depending on the selector. I had to manually relink all link with the correct DE permalinks on all pages and then neccesarily update the EN translation with assigning all links again. This took me a complete day!

However this does the trick for now, but on one page (hidden link) I again find a strange behaviour:

The two builder elements on the right should link to either software or accessories. They do in case of the DE site but not for EN. I´ve checked all settings, even in string translation they have the correct translation active. I even removed both links, saved the German page, updated the EN translation, then both links were removed. After that I inserted the links again through builder element (as discribed from you above) and now the wrong EN links are back online.

How can this happen?

Best regards,
Robin