Multi Language urls

I’ve got to build a multi-language Revolution site for 5 European countries and, after some deliberation, I’ve decided to go with one Web context and sub-folders rather than one Context per language.

I’ve performed the following so far

• Set ‘use_alias_path’ to true
• Created a couple of containers ‘en’ and ‘de’ with some pages underneath
• Set Web context ‘site_start’ to point to the ‘en’ container

All seems to work well except

• When I browse ‘mydomain.com’ without specifying a country code I’d like it to rewrite as ‘mydomain.com/en/’ instead of sticking on ‘mydomain.com’ - it show the content from container ‘en’ ok
• When I browse ‘mydomain.com/en’ or ‘mydomain.com/en/’ it currently rewrites as ‘mydomain.com’ which is not what I want. It’s showing the content ok from the container ‘en’ but rewriting the url. If I browse ‘mydomain.com/en/a-sub-page.html’ it sticks on that url ok.

I’ve tried a few options in .htaccess without success. Also I don’t want to break anything in terms of folders such as /assets.

Any pointers appreciated.

Mark

what you can do is:

create a snippet ’sendRedirect’ with this code:


create a new home-resource for site-start with this snippet-tag:

and point the system-setting site-start to this resource.

Thanks

Will Google treat this as a friendly redirect?

sendRedirect as described above redirects as a 302 which I’m a bit worried about from an SEO perspective.

Poking around in the ’redirector’ package I’ve found that preceding the redirect with a header declaration fixes it



Not entirely sure how/why this works because I can’t see how the $modx->sendRedirect($modx->makeUrl($docid)) command knows I’ve declared the header.

Anyhow it’s a working solution which I’m happy about. Still have a nagging feeling I should be doing this stuff in .htaccess ...

The modX::sendRedirect method takes a parameter to specify the header sent in the response, e.g.



Also note that you should never send relative URLs to sendRedirect() — always use complete URLs or the redirects will fail in many versions of IE.

Great - thanks for this