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When setting up Sofa for the first time you'll be prompted to create a Site. At the very least you'll need to populate the hostname. If you wish to serve all content from a particular path (say, http://example.org/en), you would want to set the path to "en". You can go even deeper, e.g., en/content/to/read. The label is the name of the site; the machine name will be automatically generated from this by default.
As a default Comfortable Mexican Sofa can handle several sites from a single installation. Each site has its own set of layouts, pages, and snippets. A site is identified by its hostname and path. For example, you can have two sites with different hostnames, like en.example.org and fr.example.org; or sites with the same hostname but different paths, like example.org/en and example.org/fr.
When creating a site you can choose one of the provided languages. This will translate all admin views and set the I18n.locale setting in the controller/views. This is handy when you need to render your own partials/helpers from the CMS-managed content.
If you want to force the admin area to use a particular locale that is different from the site language, set the initializer value config.admin_locale = :en. Only the admin area will be affected; the site locale settings will still apply.
If you wish to include a locale that doesn't exist yet, take a peek in /config/locales. You can create your own and extend Sofa's initialization config; for example, config.locales.merge!(:arr => 'Pirate'). Also you're welcome to contribute your translations to Sofa.
When you have two or more sites that need to share the same structure (consider a multilingual site) you should enable mirroring on those sites. This will automatically sync layouts, pages, and snippets with the same slugs and paths for all sites that are marked as mirrors. For example, if you create page /welcome on Site A, Site B will also have this page created. Site B's /welcome page will be blank however--you'll need to populate it.