Change language directory's name !

[Charazad]

Hi there,

In mysite.fr I have an older version of presta (1.3)

And I updated it to 1.6 in a subfolder: new.mysite.fr

They both have 2 languages : fr and en

- In the english language of the 1.3 version , the url is like this: mysite.fr/lang-en/...
- But in the new version (1.6) the url is like this: new.mysite.fr/en/...

How can I change the language directory's name (/en/) in 1.6 to look like  : lang-en ?

 

Is there anyone had the same problem?
 

[tuk66]

Why? Because of Google?

[tuk66]

You can try to add this rewrite rule to the root .htaccess file.

# 301 --- http://www.test.com/lang-??/url.php => http://www.test.com/??/url
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/(.*)\.php$ /$1/$2? [L,R=301]

[El Patron]

Hi, Google does not recommend lang-en for example, but /en/  or in best case /en-(country code).

 

I would only worry about this change if an old link (lang-en) did not resolve properly to /en/

[Charazad]

Thank you for replying quickly,

Yeah like El Patron said, I'm worry that would affect those pages ranking. And if google recommended the /xx/ , how can it be solved?

Thanks tuk66, I'll try it and I'll get back to u !

Edited April 11, 2016 by Charazad (see edit history)

[El Patron]

Thank your replying quickly,

Yeah like El Patron said, I'm worry that would affect those pages ranking. And if google recommended the /xx/ , how can it be solved?

Thanks tuk66, I'll try it and I'll get back to u !

 

I would test it without changing anything to see if native resolves internally, I don't recommend 'redirects' unless there is no other possible way as that hits  SEO 

[Charazad]

I added the rule to .htaccess and it worked great, thanks everyone