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Daria Aubry
8,518 PointsMulti-language site
What's the best practice in terms of site architecture for building a multi-language site? Is it best to make a subdirectory for each language (e.g. en, fr, de)? But what do you serve as the index page? Do you make a symlink to /en/index.html?
4 Answers
Rikky Yoelanda Putra
2,317 PointsHi, google translate integration may becomes handy in this case. But as we already know, google translate sometimes have grammatical errors, it can be a mess if your website is serving the audiences some technical sentences which can't be translated literally. If you can do some additional efforts, it's recommended to have another webpages using folders or subdomains with each has been already translated. For the main page, well, it's a little bit technical in server side, you can apply a GeoIP system in your server to check your audiences IP and redirect the audiences to the main page of another language, e.g. audiences' IP detected as spain by GeoIP will be redirected to spanish webpage, etc. You should try Maxmind GeoIP for experiments, installing their GeoIP modules and database inside your server, and declare the redirects using .htaccess.
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsOne solution is Google's translator widget and you might also refer to their international guidelines.
Daria Aubry
8,518 PointsOk, thanks for the tips and references. I was thinking of making and maintaining separate pages, just for the languages I speak myself. So not using any automated translation and serving the English page by default, but giving the user the option to switch the language manually, so without any geolocation (because I often find it annoying myself).
I suppose my question was a much lower-level type one. I meant that if I saved the separate pages in their respective language directories (say in directories ./en, ./fr, ./de), then what do I need to do so that when the default page is requested (say when someone just types http://mydomain.tld/) and the index.html page is served, that that index page corresponds to /en/index.html. Do I just need to make index.html into a symbolic link or do I need to change something else?
Rikky Yoelanda Putra
2,317 PointsHow about redirecting to folder using .htaccess? Maybe some sort of rule like this can help you, RewriteRule ^$ /store [L]