Using a different domain for each language in Laravel

Question

I am building a website in Laravel and need to use a different domain for each language. Currently I'm using mcamara/laravel-localization for the localization. For example:

• EN => my-english-website.com
• NL => my-dutch-website.com

It seems like using different domains is not something that is supported by default. Has someone run into this issue and knows how to solve this?

Answer 1

Subdomains are supported by default.

Route::domain('{locale}.website.com')->middleware('set-locale')->group(function () {
    // your routes here
})->where('locale', '(my-english|my-dutch|my-spanish)');

You use where to match the {locale} parameter to a regex pattern and then use a middleware to actually set the locale.

Maybe you'd have something like this in the middleware

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
{
    $locales = ['my-english' => 'en', 'my-spanish' => 'es', ...];

    app()->setLocale($locales[$this->route->parameter('locale')]);

    return $next($request);
}

I'm not sure if this was the correct syntax, but you get the idea.