[Tutorial] Multilingual Websites with MODx (improved version)

Hello, primarily sorry for my poor English...

This is my first developing attempt with MODx after i "met" it used on a website that i have managed for some months.

After some hours spent on Google, i have opted for your multilingual solution.

I have followed your tutorial step by step, but when i open my homepage it displays a 404 page and i can’t figured out why!

Where i’m wrong?
Thanks in advance

Did you enable Friendly URLs in the MODx configuration, but forget to rename the ht.access file in your web root folder to .htaccess?

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 10, 2011, 11:44 PM

Did you enable Friendly URLs in the MODx configuration, but forget to rename the ht.access file in your web root folder to .htaccess?

Friendly URLs enabled and .htaccess renamed... I’m running it on localhost with EasyPHP, could this be the problem?

Is it in the root (www) folder, or is it in a subfolder (/modx)? If it’s in a subfolder you need to edit the RewriteBase line from / to /foldername.

Did the site work at all before setting up the multilanguage system? Does the Manager work?

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 11, 2011, 07:49 AM

Is it in the root (www) folder, or is it in a subfolder (/modx)? If it’s in a subfolder you need to edit the RewriteBase line from / to /foldername.

Did the site work at all before setting up the multilanguage system? Does the Manager work?

I’m starting building this site in two languages and the manager works fine.

Is not in the root folder but in a project subfolder.. I have edited the RewriteBase line of .htaccess but it doesn’t work yet!

Turn off Friendly URLs and see if it works then. Also check out what URL you need to enter to get a plain index.html file. On localhost, it might be http://localhost/... or it might be http://127.0.0.1/...

Are you using an Apache web server? If you’re using IIS or some other web server, the .htaccess file won’t work.

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 11, 2011, 10:31 AM

Turn off Friendly URLs and see if it works then. Also check out what URL you need to enter to get a plain index.html file. On localhost, it might be http://localhost/... or it might be http://127.0.0.1/...

Are you using an Apache web server? If you’re using IIS or some other web server, the .htaccess file won’t work.

EasyPHP include an Apache webserver and use http://127.0.0.1/

Without Friendly URLs it works i think: i see the "minimal template" with the output of [[LanguageChooser]], no navigation and the output of [*content*]; i can switch language and the content change.. but there is no navigation!

Ok, I tried to install modx on a my own empty domain and it works fine!
I think was just a localhost problem, that i would like to solve anyway!
Some ideas?

I have an intermittent issue with the menu 'sticking' to the wrong language. For example, a page may correctly display in English but the menu is still showing the German menu. Has anyone else had the same issue as it's occurred on two sites of mine? [ed. note: randall last edited this post 14 years, 6 months ago.]