multilingual: Add option to keep the main language on top level

[bep]

See #2309

I'll add this here for discussion

I'll take two of my Hugo sites as an example:

http://bepsays.com/ => Norwegian
http://bep.is/ => English

bepsays.com has some English content, so I would love to have a http://bepsays.com/en/, but I would still like my old URLs (the main content) to live as before.

bep.is has a short presentational text in English. It would be cool to point to translations in French, Japanese etc., but I would still like the main language to stay where it is.

• This complicates things a little, it somewhat put restrictions on section namings etc., but I think it is worth it.
• It should be optional, but probably default on

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[abourget]

You mean you'd like to render the English homepage at the complete root ?

I use a quick redirection based on browser settings with a hard coded
fallback. Have you seen that ?

GolangMontreal.org/index.html

Le ven. 29 juil. 2016 02:15, Bjørn Erik Pedersen notifications@github.com
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See #2309 #2309

I'll add this here for discussion

I'll take two of my Hugo sites as an example:

http://bepsays.com/ => Norwegian
http://bep.is/ => English

bepsays.com have some English content, so I would love to have a
http://bepsays.com/en/, but I would still like my old URLs (the main
content) to live as before.

bep.is has a short presentational text in English. It would be cool to
point to translations in French, Japanese etc., but I would still like the
main language to stay where it is.

• This complicates things a little, it somewhat put restrictions on
  section namings etc., but I think it is worth it.
• It should be optional, but probably default on

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@spf13 https://github.com/spf13
@RickCogley https://github.com/RickCogley
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[bep]

You mean you'd like to render the English homepage at the complete root ? I use a quick

Yes.

redirection based on browser settings with a hard coded fallback. Have you seen that ?

Yes, and that is the good an natural solution for the "full multilanguage" sites. But that does not fit some of my use cases, for SEO reasons etc. (I don't want to move 90% of my URLs one level down), I don't want my "main page" be a redirect etc.

[abourget]

OK this shouldn't be very difficult.. as the addition of prefixes happens
only in a few places. We don't have anything to detect collisions though..
but I would be comfortable not having any.. assuming people don't name
their posts "en" or such.

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You mean you'd like to render the English homepage at the complete root ?
I use a quick

Yes.

redirection based on browser settings with a hard coded fallback. Have you
seen that ?

Yes, and that is the good an natural solution for the "full multilanguage"
sites. But that does not fit some of my use cases, for SEO reasons etc. (I
don't want to move 90% of my URLs one level down), I don't want my "main
page" be a redirect etc.

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[bep]

Things to keep in mind when implementing:

• sitemap.xml

[abourget]

What I did (if I didn't document it, I should), is I wrote a static sitemap.xml in my static/ dir like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <sitemap>
      <loc>https://blog.abourget.net/en/sitemap.xml</loc>
   </sitemap>
   <sitemap>
      <loc>https://blog.abourget.net/fr/sitemap.xml</loc>
   </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

[reuixiy]

@bep Hi there, I got a problem when I test Hugo Multilingual Mode for my unfinished Hugo theme, and I Google here...

Briefly, Hugo generated a useless folder zh in public directory, which includes index.html(a redirect file, use http-equiv="refresh" to redirect to home(/), same as Hugo Aliases) and sitemap.xml two files.

My config.toml:

defaultContentLanguage = "zh"
defaultContentLanguageInSubdir = false

[languages]
  [languages.zh]
    languageName = "中文"
    contentDir = "content/zh"
    weight = 0
    languageCode = "zh-CN"
    hasCJKLanguage= true
  [languages.en]
    languageName = "English"
    contentDir = "content/en"
    weight = 1
    languageCode = "en-US"

What’s more, this folder still could not be removed after I’v tried some tricks, such as:

1. set disableAliases = true in config.toml
2. add content/zh/zh/_index.md and add outputs: [] to its front matter

Although this folder has no side effects and I can delete it by myself or bash script, it would be great if Hugo won’t generate it at all or give an option to config it.

Thx.

[reuixiy]

Oh I see… It’s not useless… The /sitemap.xml is just a link to the /zh/sitemap.xml and the /en/sitemap.xml… In multilingual mode, it has to be like this… Because there can only be one file with the same name in the same folder…

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