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Broken link in multilingual site for files url

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    m_dimitris Reply #1, 10 years, 7 months ago
    Hello!
    I have the following issue and I am not sure how to solve it. I have a multilingual site and I have some tv which are of file type. When I am in the default language its link works ok. When I change the language the url is taking the cultureKey and therefore the link doesnt work. e.g. http://example.com/gr/filename.pdf

    In .htaccess file I have the following lines:

    # redirect all requests to /de/assets* and /nl/assets* to /assets*
						RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
						RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
						RewriteRule ^(en|gr|de)/assets(.*)$ assets$2 [L,QSA]
						 
						# redirect all other requests to /en/* and /nl/*
						# to index.php and set the cultureKey parameter
						RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
						RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
						RewriteRule ^(en|gr|de)?/?(.*)$ index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 [L,QSA]

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks for the help
    Dimitris
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      BobRay Reply #2, 10 years, 7 months ago
      Since the language code will always be between slashes, and that won't happen anywhere else, you don't really need to match the beginning of the line.

      For the first one, try this (without the ^) :

      RewriteRule /(en|gr|de)/assets(.*)$ assets$2 [L,QSA]


      For the second one:

      RewriteRule /(en|gr|de)/(.*)$ index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 [L,QSA]


      If you want to be conservative (belt and suspenders), you can do this:

      RewriteRule ^.*/(en|gr|de)/assets(.*)$ assets$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^.*/(en|gr|de)/(.*)$ index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 [L,QSA]
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        sottwell Reply #3, 10 years, 7 months ago
        If you are using Revolution, there are several routing plugins that don't use server rewrites at all.
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          m_dimitris Reply #4, 10 years, 7 months ago
          thanks a lot! problem solved!