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wardey
wardey

Reputation: 169

How to disable Sitecore's embedded language parser

I have a site that has many URL rewrites and a good portion of them contain old links that are prefixed with a country code (e.g. /fr, /de, etc). Rewrites without the prefixes work just fine but those with trigger Sitecore's embedded language URL parser which bypasses the rewrite module entirely.

Example /fr/old-link tries to parse 'fr' as a language and fails as 'fr-FR' is the name of the French language.

Solution I need to disable Sitecore's ability to detect a language prefix in the URL so the URL rewrite module can proceed unhindered.

I can't find where it is in the pipeline that this occurs. I've gone through numerous with Reflector and come up short. I need help please.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 847

Answers (2)

Matthew Dresser
Matthew Dresser

Reputation: 11442

You will need to create a new LanguageResolver to replace the standard Sitecore one (Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest.LanguageResolver). This is referenced in the <httpRequestBegin> pipeline section in web.config. Here you can handle requests beginning with fr as opposed to fr-FR etc. In the past I have done a similar thing for when we wanted to use non-ISO language codes.

EDIT

The LanguageResolver resolves language based on query string first, but will also resolve based on file path (i.e. having fr-FR in the start of your path). I think you would need to inherit from the Sitecore LanguageResolver and override the GetLanguageFromRequest method changing the else statement to use something different to Context.Data.FilePathLanguage - possibly just using regex/string manipulation to get the first folder from the URL then use that to set the context language. This should prevent the failure to resolve language which I understand is killing your URL rewrite module.

Upvotes: 1

Martijn Bos
Martijn Bos

Reputation: 116

Another pipeline to look at is the preprocessRequest pipeline. It has a StripLanguage processor that detects if the first part of the URL is a language and acts on it.

More info on how to get Sitecore to ignore the language part of the url can be found in this post http://sitecoreblog.patelyogesh.in/2013/11/sitecore-item-with-language-name.html

Upvotes: 1

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