Preview Site Not Pickup Correctly In Multi-Site Setup For Preview OR Experience Editor On Sitecore 8 Versions

Recently I was working on a project where we converted the existing single site setup into multi-site setup.

After the conversion to multi-site setup, there were few issues reported related to local site settings were not pick-up correctly. Following are the few issues reported

Issue 1 :

When try to open Experience Editor from Sitecore Launch Pad, it didn't open the correct local site, but open the Eperience Editor for default site (i.e. "website")

Solution:

This was mention on several articls and the solution was to

1) Open the “/sitecore/client/Applications/Launchpad/PageSettings/Buttons/ContentEditing/ExperienceEditor” item in the core database
2) Change the “Link” field value to: /?sc_mode=edit&sc_resolvelanguage=0

https://community.sitecore.net/general/f/11/t/2835

Issue 2 :

When try to open the Experience Editor for an item from Content Editor, it always set the "sc_site" parameter to "website". So, it also was not picking-up the correct context site.

website.local?sc_mode=edit&sc_itemid=%7bB338C802-17A7-4D71-A5E8-4E6C4B7EEC6E%7d&sc_version=3&sc_lang=en-US&sc_site=website

Solution:

Sitecore has reported this as a known issue and has provided fix in the following knowledge base article.

Quote:
In multi-site Sitecore solutions, the Preview functionality of the Content Editor or Page Editor may incorrectly resolve the site the previewed item belongs to.The context site may be resolved according to the value of the Preview.DefaultSite setting, or set to website as default.

https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/382913

After the above fix is implemented, site context site resolved correctly.

website.local?sc_mode=edit&sc_itemid=%7bB338C802-17A7-4D71-A5E8-4E6C4B7EEC6E%7d&sc_version=3&sc_lang=en-US&sc_site=US