Allow the site to be accessed via a French domain

[jobara]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

While the site is localized in French/LSQ and English/ASL, the domain is only in English. The request is to be able to access the site also from https://connecteuraccessibilite.ca

Describe the solution you'd like

• Use https://connecteuraccessibilite.ca and https://www.connecteuraccessibilite.ca as aliases for the site.
• When using the French domain the default language of the site should be French instead of English

Describe alternatives you've considered

An additional option would be for the site to always use the French domain when the language is French/LSQ and the English domain when the site is English/ASL. However it would be more complicated to switch between languages and may also be confusing for users as it may appear to be changing to a different site. Another potential issue is that the session wouldn't automatically transfer over and would require the user to log in again if the session couldn't be passed along.

Additional context

@marvinroman has done some investigation into this with regards to using nginx configuration and custom middleware.

There's also the possibility of using something like https://github.com/gecche/laravel-multidomain

[jobara]

@greatislander mentioned that having the two alias urls as described above would likely affect SEO. His suggestion instead is to have a bilingual url such as https://tae-ca.ca which the existing https://accessibilityexchange.ca redirecting to https://tae-ca/en and https://connecteuraccessibilite.ca/ redirecting to https://tae-ca/fr. In this way there is a single canonical domain name.

[marvinroman]

Yeah having aliases instead of dedicated domains would likely affect SEO. I was assuming most of the site is behind a login screen so SEO wouldn't be super important but that assumption might be wrong.

[jobara]

@greatislander mentioned that having the two alias urls as described above would likely affect SEO. His suggestion instead is to have a bilingual url such as https://tae-ca.ca which the existing https://accessibilityexchange.ca redirecting to https://tae-ca/en and https://connecteuraccessibilite.ca/ redirecting to https://tae-ca/fr. In this way there is a single canonical domain name.

Waiting to hear back from Erick regarding this approach with a bilingual url.