Setup WPML with different domains

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Last updated by Thomas Endres 8 months, 2 weeks ago.

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October 12, 2024 at 9:41 am #16281856
Thomas Endres	Background of the issue: I am trying to change my website language behavior from 'folders' to different domains. I bought the domain web-makeup.gr for the Greek language and created a subdomain de.web-makeup.com for the German language. All seems to be set up and pointing to the main domain. Symptoms: Changing the setting in WPML, I get an ok for the new Greek domain (web-makeup.gr) but an error for the subdomain. Questions: What else could I do to resolve the error for the subdomain?
October 12, 2024 at 11:34 am #16282034
Mihai Apetrei WPML Supporter since 03/2018 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+03:00)	Hi there. Sometimes, even if it shows the red invalid notice, that might be a false positive. So can you please add both to the WPML > Languages settings and try to save and see if it works? Please let us know how things go. Mihai Apetrei
October 12, 2024 at 11:43 am #16282043
Thomas Endres	Hi there Mihai, thank you very much for your quick answer. And no, unfortunately it did not work at all. Saving it like German: hidden link Greek: hidden link gives me the result that the language switcher flags do not work at all anymore. Just staying on the inital English site. Hope you still got an idea, because I really ran out of ideas. Checked everything regarding the domains and DNS. Looks all great. Thank you very much for your effort Regards Thomas
October 12, 2024 at 12:18 pm #16282065
Thomas Endres	Hi there again, so in the meantime I made some more test. Now I get the German site really running with the subdomain de.web-makeup.com. But the Greek site does not appear although the language switcher Greek flag leads to hidden link but not showing the Greek version, showing the English Again thank you for any input on that Regards Thomas
October 12, 2024 at 1:03 pm #16282113
Thomas Endres	I do not really want to send you too many message, but keep you updated. Ok, now both flags on the language switcher show the correct url German flag hidden link and Greek flag hidden link But both do not lead to the according language. It just stays on the English version Thanks Thomas