How to setup 2 domains (one for each language of same site)

[tuijatuulia]

Hi, again here, after a change to own server environment.
I am curious on how to make the setup when I have 2 domains for multilingual WPML setup.

.net for other language (default)
.com for English

I understood that I can setup only 1 domain at the time. And the .com is actually the same server.

Any tips on this please? I did not find instructions on this kind of setup unfortunately. I did start the .net configuration - should I just add then the .com when .net is ready?

[fritex]

Greetings,

Thank you for asking.

If you would like both of them to be on Cloudflare, you should add both of them to your Cloudflare account.

• Step 1: Adding your domain to Cloudflare
• Step 2: Setting up SSL with Cloudflare
• Step 3: Enabling the ‘Orange Cloud’
• Step 4: Checking your site after adding it to Cloudflare

I even have setups where 1 domain is at CF, other 2 are not while using WPML.

Multilingual site, multiple domains

It really does not matter and simply is a personal preference thing. If they both point to the same server and you prefer to hide the IP address behind Cloudflare you might want to place both on Cloudflare, but then you might want to switch IP addresses now anyhow.

You can also combine different plan per each domain (zone), if so:

Multilingual, multi-domain website

One domain per plan. Each zone (domain) has its own configurations, even if they are identical. And, yes, if you were to pay the Pro Plan, it would be $20 per domain. If you have the possibility of changing the setup, you could do: fr.example.com en.example.com etc. Under the same domain, therefore the same plan.

[tuijatuulia]

@fritex

f them to be on Cloudflare, you should add both of them to your Cloudflare account.

Oh yes, there is also the option not to transfer both to Cloudflare, right… I will wait for the 24h name server change and will check how it looks on main site only.
Would this make the other language slow, like without Cloudflare, I guess?

I’m sorry I did not really get the idea would both “one domain per plan” or “both domains in same plan” would be equally good options?

[fritex]

Thank you for asking.

@tuijatuulia

one domain per plan

This

Each domain has it’s own plan (free for example) → one domain per plan.