Hide language code from URLs

[Andrey_Baev]

Hello!

How i can hide language code from URLs? We have 2 language, for example pl and en.

I tried use .htaccess file, but nothing what i googled dont work.

Current .htaccess config is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# RewriteRule ^pl/(.\*) /$1 \[R=302,L\]

RewriteRule ^api/v1(.*)$ index.php/api/v1$1 \[L,R=307\]*
#RewriteCond *%{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\[^/\]+)/(en|pl)/(.*)$ \[NC\]
#RewriteRule ^(\[^/\]+)/(en|pl)/(.\*)$ /$1/$3 \[R=301,L\]

# RedirectMatch 301 ojs.test.ru/journal1/pl/(.*) ojs.test.ru/journal1//$1

# RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

# RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} \[L,R=301\]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

OJS 3.5

[deanting]

Hi @Andrey_Baev What you mean by hiding language code from URLs? What effect do you want to achieve? Will you give me a example?

[Andrey_Baev]

For example i have these two links:

https://ojs.test.ru/main/pl/index

https://ojs.test.ru/main/en/index

And i want edit it to look like this:
https://ojs.test.ru/main/index

I’m already set a primary locale, but still have this code on both languages.

[Andrey_Baev]

What should i do? Just set the primary locale? If so, i’m already did it. But still have two codes in URLs.

[asmecher]

Hi @Andrey_Baev,

Can you write a little more about why you’d like to hide the language codes? We added them to the URL intentionally for at least a couple of important reasons:

• We want to reduce our use of cookies for non-authenticated users; storing the current locale was one of the few uses of cookies that made this necessary
• Search engines will be much better able to fully index content when the locale code is included in the URL.

It might be possible to use URL rewriting to remove this, but I suspect you’d find yourself struggling with both of those issues!

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[Andrey_Baev]

If this is problematic enough to implement on the current version, then I will simply pass this information on to users. The curator of the journal wanted to have “clean” links, without the language code in them. That’s actually the whole purpose.