One url per locale? Multi-domain deployment.

[ahtremblay]

Hello, it does not seem possible to set one url for each locale.

For instance, I may wish to deploy the fr local to https://www.bonjour.com and the en locale to https://www.hello.com, but docusaurus.config.js only allows to specify a single url for the whole project. Is there a workaround?

The relevant parts of my config file are:

const config = {
  url: 'https://www.hello.com',
  i18n: {
    defaultLocale: 'en',
    locales: ['en', 'fr']
  },

I compile using a build.sh script as follows:

#!/bin/bash
rm -rf build
npm run build -- --locale fr --out-dir build/fr
npm run build -- --locale en --out-dir build/en

However, the links in the generated files all point to https://www.hello.com regardless of the locale. How can I make the url for the fr locale point to https://www.bonjour.com? The sitemap.xml also contains https://www.hello.com for the fr locale.

[slorber]

@ahtremblay we should be able to customize the config according to the current locale, but don't have a good API for that ATM, and the original design of the config does not really permit to add it easily without a breaking change or a weird API design.

The only workaround I can suggest is to run multiple builds using different environment variables.

#!/bin/bash
rm -rf build
CURRENT_DOCUSAURUS_LOCALE=fr npm run build -- --locale fr --out-dir build/fr
CURRENT_DOCUSAURUS_LOCALE=en npm run build -- --locale en --out-dir build/en

And then use process.env.CURRENT_DOCUSAURUS_LOCALE in the config file to decide on different configs.

const config = {
  url: process.env.CURRENT_DOCUSAURUS_LOCALE === "fr" ? 'https://www.bonjour.com' : 'https://www.hello.com',
  i18n: {
    defaultLocale: 'en',
    locales: ['en', 'fr']
  },
}

At best we'll provide this env variable automatically for you, or find a way to make the current locale available in the config file. The weird issue is that we have to load the config file once first without any "current locale", just because we actually need to read the i18n config and default locale 😅 )

Please let me know if this works for you.

Note I'd like to move the Docusaurus i18n sites to subdomains later, just for the sake of demonstrating this setup is technically possible.