Always include default language

[tpluscode]

I built a multi-language docusaurus site (for now, German+French)

So the default language is served from site/ and French translation from site/fr/.

I don't suppose there is any easy way to serve only site/de/ and site/fr/ and redirect "language-less" URLs to /de/*?

I can think of a way to build the languages separately and configuring a redirect on host but it makes the build process unnecessarily complicated and it relies on hosting provide capabilities...

[slorber]

Docusaurus doesn't "host" your site, it only builds it.

It is your responsibility to configure your host appropriately to serve the static files the way you want.

You can use Vercel/Netlify middleware to redirect a visitor of /xyz to /fr/xyz or /de/xyz based on rules you can code on your own, and they provide tooling to geolocate visitor's IP if that's useful to you.

See my comment here #5838 (comment)

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it relies on hosting provide capabilities...

Yes, it always does. For example, if you use GitHub Pages, you can't even do a basic server-side redirect, while every other host support that basic feature.

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You can build languages independently with docusaurus build --locale fr.
But by default, Docusaurus will assume that when building a single locale at a time, you are likely to use a multi-subdomain deployment (fr.example.com) and use baseUrl: '/'. Unfortunately, this is not what you want here.

When building a single locale, we don't make this very convenient, but you can force a specific baseUrl: process.env.DOCUSAURUS_CURRENT_LOCALE === "fr" : "/fr/" : "/de/" in your config to handle it. I'd like to revive this PR soon to make it easier to configure