alias confused with culture_key

[jmbuytaert]

I have a site in 3 contexts: web, french (culture key: fr) and german (culture key: de). In the web (english) context, I have some alias that begin with "de" (ex: demand.html).

The problem is the following: Babel only takes the first 2 letters after the sitename and transfers it to its culture key, so when I load www.site.com/demand.html, it considers it as www.site.com/de/mand.html, therefore directing me to a 404 page.

This should not be happening. Babel is a great tool and I'm glad that I found it, I just hope that this gets fixed quickly!

Thanks.
jm

[mikrobi]

Please note that Babel itself doesn't perform any redirects. Currently there is no gateway plugin shipped with Babel. How does your gateway plugin look like? Are you using any htaccess redirects?

[jmbuytaert]

if (stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/fr') !== false || stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/fr/') !== false) {
    $modx->switchContext('french');
    $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'fr');

} elseif (stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/de') !== false || stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/de/') !== false) {
    $modx->switchContext('german');
    $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'de');

} else {
    $modx->switchContext('web');
    $modx->setOption('cultureKey', 'en');
}

[mikrobi]

Here we go, the unwanted behaviour is caused by your own gateway plugin. This statement validates to true for something like /demand.html

 stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/de') !== false

Check out the offical Babel tutorials at http://www.multilingual-modx.com/ to get your context switches work properly.

[jmbuytaert]

That was what was wrong! Thank you! But I want people to be redirected to
the german context wether they type in site.com/de/ or site.com/de (with or
without the trailing slash... is that something that I need to add in the
htacess file?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Jakob Class <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Here we go, the unwanted behaviour is caused by your own gateway plugin.
This statement validates to true for something like /demand.html
stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/de') !== false

Check out the offical Babel tutorials at http://www.multilingual-modx.com/to get your context switches work properly.

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Jean-Marc Buytaert
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[mikrobi]

Yes, I think so. Take a look at this tutorial for some htaccess rules: http://www.multilingual-modx.com/blog/2011/seo-friendly-multilingual-websites-with-modx-and-babel.html