Multiple-site configuration for home page

Question

We have a multi-site configuration. Some sites are English and some are other languages. My problem is that my site in English has a featured article set as the Home page. If you go to another site and type this in:

www.examplesite1.com/index.php

It will show the content from my main site. The problem is typing in the index.php part. I obviously don't want this. It is not a problem for my other sites using a different language because I can assign a different home page. But for all the English sites I have it uses the same Home page. AFAIK you can't assign multiple home pages to the same language.

I tried to use Advanced module manager and move this into a separate module and create an assignment to only the proper domain but that doesn't' work. Anyone know of any alternatives I can try?

I don't do anything special for this multi-site configuration just a simple template redirect.

Answer 1

By default, Joomla does not have a multiple-site configuration.

If you want to manage several independent sites on the same hosting account, then you can create hostings on subdirectories or subdomains. All of these alternatives have to be defined at hosting level.

Answer 2

Whatever you want to achieve by pasting into the index.php file, can also be achieved by creating a system plugin and triggering the same code onAfterInitialise

However in your case, why do you need to use featured articles? The same can be achieved by using categories or even tags (more work in the template overrides)