Language url selector active by default

[Buriburu]

Good Morning,
I have an answer and I hope that someone more expert can help me.

I'm going to publish a website in prestashop.
The website will be in two languages (italian and english).
By now we have only the italian contents, so I will start to go online only in italian and then add english.

The problem is in the url:
If I deactivate the second language all urls become www.mysite.it/PAGENAME. When I activate the second language, obviously it appears as www.mysite.it/it/PAGENAME and his translation go to www.mysite.it/en/PAGENAME.

This fact will be a problem for seo and internal manual links.

Does exists a way to "force" prestashop to use the "it" language url selector even if only one language is active?

Can anyone help me?

[vekia]

you can temporarily enable english language

and in htaccess create redirection from urls like domain/en/ to domain/it/

[PascalVG]

Maybe easier method:

 

1) Disable the English site

 

2) Edit file classes/Language.php

 

Almost at the end, you have a function that checks if there are more languages. This function is elsewhere used when checking if /<language code> should be added.:

 

/**

* Check if more on than one language is activated

*

* @since 1.5.0

* @return bool

*/

public static function isMultiLanguageActivated($id_shop = null)

{

    return (Language::countActiveLanguages($id_shop) > 1);

}

 

change 1 into 0:

 

    return (Language::countActiveLanguages($id_shop) > 0);

 

 

Then reload the front page (use only domain www.mysite.it/ and it will automatically add /it/

 

 

Hope this helps,

pascal