Homepage language as first segment

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I have a website supporting multiple languages as translation of the pages. An example of a URL is www.websitedomain.com/en/somepage. Somehow the homepage doesn't have a language segment by default. The page can be reached under www.websitedomain.com/ and www.websitedomain.com/en/. I want to make a FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider that will rewrite the URL with the homepage language.

Is the FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider still the way to go in Episerver 9 or do I need another solution?

#172431

Dec 02, 2016 13:39

Daniel Ovaska

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The default routing will use www.websitedomain.com/en/somepage (with language tag) for all language EXCEPT if you have set default culture on host. Hint: you do this in admin where you also specify site url and http/https.

If you have set this to "en" then language segment will be skipped on that host and you will get www.websitedomain.com/somepage for "en" language. Removing default culture on host will probably work?

#172432

Edited, Dec 02, 2016 14:18

Vote:

I've not added a culture in the admin settings. The homepage is not using a language in the segment. Maybe its not a problem after all because a canonical is rendered in the homepage that is telling to index the www.websitedomain.com/en instead of www.websitedomain.com

#172434

Dec 02, 2016 16:07

Johan Petersson

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If you render a canonical link you should be fine. It's actually better to just do that, otherwise you have to redirect users to e.g. /en/ which is way worse performance-wise.

#172443

Dec 02, 2016 17:54

Daniel Ovaska

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Sounds fine then.

#172458

Dec 03, 2016 18:53

K Khan

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IIS URL Rewrite module can be used for redirection to avoid performance issues. (still an extra trip)
Cannonical URLs will be enough for SEO purposes.

Regards
/K

#172471

Dec 04, 2016 21:48

Johan Petersson

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I was not referring to server performance though. It's annoying to be redirected when you're on your mobile or slow connection in general, when there's no need for it.

#172472

Dec 04, 2016 23:15

Anders Kåre Olsen

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You can try to take a look at the description of "Strict language routing" that was introduced in version 7.5. See one of the last paragraphs of this page: http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Johan-Bjornfot/Dates1/2013/12/Routing-changes-in-75/

It contains a short description of language routing.

#172490

Dec 05, 2016 11:25

Vote:

Thank you for the support. It is cleaner after all to just show the domain.

#172748

Dec 09, 2016 17:25