Support/Comments for YAMS (Yet Another Multilingual Solution) 1.0.4-beta

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Brief Description:
This version of YAMS brings with it:

- Important bug fixes and stability improvements
- Updated documentation (Setup and How To?)
- Automatic multilingual URLs
- Finer control over HTTP status codes for redirection from existing URLs to multilingual URLs to help site migration
- Support for installation of MODx into a subdirectory

It is recommended that all users upgrade to this version.

Please post bug reports and support requests on the main YAMS development thread.

Hello PSM,

in your install instruction, you note :

This is a beta release. YAMS has proven to be quite stable in certain
configurations, such as root name mode, where it has been reasonably well tested
and some people have started using it on live sites.

I’m a new user of MODX and I could’nt fine what is "root name mode" nor how I can check if my site is use that mode or not.

Can you explain me ?

thank you very much.

Hi efilippi.

Root name mode is something specific to YAMS, rather than MODx. You can tell which modes are active by going to Modules>YAMS>Language Settings after you have installed and configured it.

Currently, with YAMS, you have to choose how you are going to distinguish between the different languages. You can choose to distinguish them by server name:

http://english.somesite.tld/
http://french.somesite.tld/
etc.

If so, then ’server name’ mode will become active.

Alternatively, you could choose to distinguish them by root name:

http://www.somesite.tld/english/
http://www.somesite.tld/french/
etc.

Then root name mode would become active.

Alternatively, you could choose to distinguish using a query parameter:

http://www.somesite.tld/filename?lang=english
http://www.somesite.tld/filename?lang=french
etc.

Query mode becomes active when you don’t specify any root or server names.

You can also choose to use both server and root names to distinguish between languages.

If you choose to use the latest YAMS 1.1.x alpha version rather than the official beta release, then you can even choose to distinguish between languages using ’multilingual aliases’. For example, you could use:

http://www.somesite.tld/my-english-page
http://www.somesite.tld/ma-page-francais
etc.

to refer to different language version of the same page. So far, the root name mode has been the most thoroughly tested. I wouldn’t let that you stop you trying something different though.

EDIT: By the way, did you know that a YAMS 1.0.5 beta is available now?