Having only one language breaks my links

[Higino]

Hi guys,

I looked around but it seems people mainly want to remove the URL language suffix, while I want to do the opposite.

Let me explain.

 

I had English and Portuguese installed as languages. I decided I wanted to disable English and keep Portuguese only.

Problem is, if I only have one language, Prestashop decides I don't need the language suffixes and removes them from item URLs, which breaks them. I get an error 500 when trying to access items without the language suffix (by just clicking the item), while if I manually put the suffix back on the URL it gives me a "Couldn't find that item" error.

If I add any other language, like Spanish, everything goes back to normal. As long as I have 2 or more languages the suffix comes back and I can access the items. But this store is targeted toward Portuguese customers and so it makes no sense to have any other languages to translate everything to. So how do I keep just 1 language without breaking the URLs?

Thanks!

[pedepot]

Hello,

This seems to be a problem of cache. I would suggest that you google how to clear Prestashop cache. If you are using PS 1.7.x go to performance and click on the button "empty cache". There is another configuration option related to URL redirection. You should allow your website to redirect to the accurate product url with or without the language suffix. 

[Higino]

27 minutes ago, pedepot said:

Hello,

This seems to be a problem of cache. I would suggest that you google how to clear Prestashop cache. If you are using PS 1.7.x go to performance and click on the button "empty cache". There is another configuration option related to URL redirection. You should allow your website to redirect to the accurate product url with or without the language suffix. 

Hi friend

That's a good guess but no, I did try that. And I tried again just now, just to make sure. I did CTRL + F5 on different browsers too. 

Now for the redirection bit, that seems interesting. How do I do that? 

I looked it up but results are usually about someone who wants to remove the language suffix, and that's not what I want to do.

Thanks!

 

EDIT: I'm in debug mode, if that's any relevant.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Higino (see edit history)