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Reputation: 7603

Default language for .htaccess

I believe what I'm trying to do is simple but I've been at it for hours and can't find the solution. Basically I have a site that has 2 languages: English and French.

I would like that if the url has no language, it redirects to a page, but if a language is specified in the url, redirect to that page.

For example

www.mysite.com -> goes to index.php?lg=en&page=$1

www.mysite.com/fr goes to index.php?lg=fr&page=$1

In my htaccess file I have this

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /    
RewriteRule ^fr(.*)$ index.php?lg=fr&page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?lg=en&page=$1 [L,QSA]

This isn't working. Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

EDIT : The code I have supplied is kind of working... the only thing is that it doesn't load my CSS/JS anymore.. when I try to type the whole path of the CSS/JS file, it returns a page not found... I know the path is good because if I comment the first rewriteRule the files get loaded... I have no clue why this is happening.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1639

Answers (1)

rubayeet
rubayeet

Reputation: 9400

Is RewriteEngine directive set to On in your Apache configuration? If not, the first line in your .htaccess should turn it on explicitly(RewriteEngine On should be the first line in the .htaccess).

Also you don't really need the second rewrite rule, do you? If no lg parameter is supplied via GET, you can default it to en in your index.php script.

Upvotes: 1

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