Map multiple domains to one AEM instance

AEM which is based on Apache Sling [1] provides the necessary functionality through repository-based configuration. When resolving resources, these so-called mappings are applied.

The following example configuration is based on the Geometrixx website that comes per default with a AEM installation. The Geometrixx website is already multilingual and serves perfectly as example.

The goal is to configure these mappings:

Domain	Content branch
www.geometrixx.fr	/content/geometrixx/fr
www.geometrixx.de	/content/geometrixx/de

These nodes have to be created in the default workspace of the repository via the CRX Content Explorer, required nodetypes in brackets:

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/etc    /map                       (sling:Folder)       /http                   (sling:OrderedFolder)          /www_geometrixx_fr   (sling:Mapping)          /www.geometrixx.fr   (sling:Mapping)          /www_geometrixx_de   (sling:Mapping)          /www.geometrixx.de   (sling:Mapping)

2 mappings are required:

• map the root context to the index-page of the language branch, e.g. www.geometrixx.fr --> /content/geometrixx/fr.html
• map resources to the corresponding language branch

Following is the JSON representation of the configuration necessary to map these 2 domains (/etc/map/http.tidy.-1.json):

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{   "jcr:primaryType": "sling:OrderedFolder",   "www_geometrixx_fr": {     "sling:internalRedirect": [       "/content/geometrixx/fr.html"     ],     "jcr:primaryType": "sling:Mapping",     "sling:match": "www.geometrixx.fr/$"   },   "www.geometrixx.fr": {     "sling:internalRedirect": [       "/content/geometrixx/fr",       "/"     ],     "jcr:primaryType": "sling:Mapping"   },   "www_geometrixx_de": {     "sling:internalRedirect": [       "/content/geometrixx/de.html"     ],     "jcr:primaryType": "sling:Mapping",     "sling:match": "www.geometrixx.de/$"   },   "www.geometrixx.de": {     "sling:internalRedirect": [       "/content/geometrixx/de",       "/"     ],     "jcr:primaryType": "sling:Mapping"   } }