I followed this tutorial for multi language implementation -
http://designfromwithin.com/995/modx-multilingual-setting-up-babel/
I carefully followed every step of this tutorial and did the following,
1. Made necessary changes to .htaccess
2. Created "gateway" plugin as described in tutorial
3. Created 2 new contexts - English and Russian.
These are settings for contexts:
web
Base URL
Key: base_url
Name: Base URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: /
Culture key
Key: cultureKey
Name: Culture key
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: lv
Site start
Key: site_start
Name: Site start
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: 1
Site URL
Key: site_url
Name: Site URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value:
http://www.site.com/
English
Key: base_url
Name: Base URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: /en
Culture key
Key: cultureKey
Name: Culture key
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: en
Site start
Key: site_start
Name: Site start
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: 12
Site URL
Key: site_url
Name: Site URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value:
http://www.site.com/en
Russian
Key: base_url
Name: Base URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: /ru
Culture key
Key: cultureKey
Name: Culture key
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: ru
Site start
Key: site_start
Name: Site start
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value: 12
Site URL
Key: site_url
Name: Site URL
Area Lexicon Entry: language
Value:
http://www.site.com/ru
After this I wanted to check out how site works so I typed in url, but site automatically gets redirected to site.com/en and page with id 12 gets opened. Although page with id 1 is set to default in modx settings and in context settings.
Gateway plugin:
<?php
//make sure the plugin does not run on the mgr context (the manager)
if ( $modx->context->get( 'key' ) != 'mgr') {
/**
* grab the current context from the request "c" parameter (or context_param_alias from system settings)
* the alternative .htaccess friendly URL rewrite rule must be activated
*/
$cntxt_param = $modx->getOption('context_param_alias', null, 'cultureKey');
if ( isset( $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] ) && $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] != '' ) {
switch ( $_REQUEST[$cntxt_param] ) {
case 'en':
$modx->switchContext('English');
break;
case 'ru':
$modx->switchContext('Russian');
break;
default:
// nothing because web is default
break;
}
}
}
.htaccess
# MODX supports Friendly URLs via this .htaccess file. You must serve web
# pages via Apache with mod_rewrite to use this functionality, and you must
# change the file name from ht.access to .htaccess.
#
# Make sure RewriteBase points to the directory where you installed MODX.
# E.g., "/modx" if your installation is in a "modx" subdirectory.
#
# You may choose to make your URLs non-case-sensitive by adding a NC directive
# to your rule: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com [NC]
# RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# or for the opposite domain.com -> www.domain.com use the following
# DO NOT USE BOTH
#
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# Rewrite secure requests properly to prevent SSL cert warnings, e.g. prevent
# https://www.domain.com when your cert only allows https://secure.domain.com
#RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443
#RewriteRule (.*) https://example-domain-please-change.com.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# The Friendly URLs part
# detect language when requesting the root (/)
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} !^(lv|en|ru) [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ lv/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ en/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ ru/ [R=301,L]
# Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# redirect all requests to /en/favicon.ico and /ru/favicon.ico
# to /favicon.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(lv|en|ru)/favicon.ico$ favicon.ico [L,QSA]
# redirect all requests to /en/assets* and /ru/assets* to /assets*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(lv|en|ru)/assets(.*)$ assets$2 [L,QSA]
# redirect all other requests to /en/* and /ru/*
# to index.php and set the cultureKey parameter
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(lv|en|ru)?/?(.*)$ index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 [L,QSA]
# Make sure .htc files are served with the proper MIME type, which is critical
# for XP SP2. Un-comment if your host allows htaccess MIME type overrides.
#AddType text/x-component .htc
# If your server is not already configured as such, the following directive
# should be uncommented in order to set PHP's register_globals option to OFF.
# This closes a major security hole that is abused by most XSS (cross-site
# scripting) attacks. For more information: http://php.net/register_globals
#
# To verify that this option has been set to OFF, open the Manager and choose
# Reports -> System Info and then click the phpinfo() link. Do a Find on Page
# for "register_globals". The Local Value should be OFF. If the Master Value
# is OFF then you do not need this directive here.
#
# IF REGISTER_GLOBALS DIRECTIVE CAUSES 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERRORS :
#
# Your server does not allow PHP directives to be set via .htaccess. In that
# case you must make this change in your php.ini file instead. If you are
# using a commercial web host, contact the administrators for assistance in
# doing this. Not all servers allow local php.ini files, and they should
# include all PHP configurations (not just this one), or you will effectively
# reset everything to PHP defaults. Consult www.php.net for more detailed
# information about setting PHP directives.
#php_flag register_globals Off
# For servers that support output compression, you should pick up a bit of
# speed by un-commenting the following lines.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5
# The following directives stop screen flicker in IE on CSS rollovers. If
# needed, un-comment the following rules. When they're in place, you may have
# to do a force-refresh in order to see changes in your designs.
#ExpiresActive On
#ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
#BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
#SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary
[ed. note: viltnieks last edited this post 12 years, 7 months ago.]