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Parse the Accept-Language header and sets a variable to a language you support that your user can understand
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Nginx Accept Language module
This module parses the Accept-Language header and gives the most suitable locale for the user from a list of supported locales from your website.
Syntax
set_from_accept_language $lang en ja pl; - `$lang` is the variable in which to store the locale - `en ja pl` are the locales supported by your websiteIf none of the locales from accept_language is available on your website, it sets the variable to the first locale of your website’s supported locales (in this case en)
Caveat
It currently assumes that the accept-language is sorted by quality values (from my tests it’s the case for safari, firefox, opera and ie) and discards q (see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html). In the situation where I’m using the module, this assumption works… but buyer beware :-)
Example configuration
If you have different subdomains for each languages
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;
set_from_accept_language $lang en ja zh;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://$lang.your_domain.com redirect;
}
Or you could do something like this, redirecting people coming to ‘/’ to /en (or /pt)
location / {
set_from_accept_language $lang pt en;
if ( $request_uri ~ ^/$ ) {
rewrite ^/$ /$lang redirect;
break;
}
}
Why did I create it?
I’m using page caching with merb on a multi-lingual website and I needed a way to serve the correct language page from the cache
I’ll soon put an example on http://gom-jabbar.org
Bugs
Send Bugs to Guillaume Maury (dev@gom-jabbar.org)
Acknowledgement
Thanks to Evan Miller for his guide on writing nginx modules (http://emiller.info/nginx-modules-guide.html)
