Multilingual site with language intro selection

[IKse7en]

Hi, I need a little help for some suggestions.
I have a multilingual website (6 languages). I have 2 conditions that I have not found yet a solution:

1. I want to use url language code on all languages (domain.com/de, domain.com/fr, domain.com/en, ... )
2. I want to put on the domain.com root a language intro selection and when a visitor access the main root of my domain.com to see a page with language selection.

Can anyone have a suggestion?

LE: the url language code could be before as well like sub domain (de.domain.com)

[Per Yngve Berg]

1. Set the "Remove URL Language Code" on the Language Filter Plugin.

2. Have you published the Language switcher module?

[IKse7en]

Ok, sorry, may be I didn't explained correctly.
All url language codes settings are done, there is no problem with that, I have http://www.domain.com/de,en,it,fr...
The issue is with the home page intro, I would like to setup a simple language page selection on the http://www.domain.com root. How can I do this, because if I set the "Remove URL Language Code" to YES then, the default language (English for ex.) will have the http://www.domain.com/article root not http://www.domain.com/en/article and if I set the plug-in to NO then the http://www.domain.com root disappears.
So, can some one give me a suggestion regarding this issue?

[Per Yngve Berg]

The root should not disappear.

Is the language status module in the back-end green?

Have you followed this tutorial from start to end?
http://docs.joomla.org/Language_Switche ... Joomla_1.6

[IKse7en]

I think that you don't understand what I talking about.
Please, test what I described above

LE: the module is published, all flags are on top, all is ok


what I talking about is that when I set the plug-in "Remove URL Language Code" to NO, the url home page address become:
for english: www.domain.com/en
for french: www.domain.com/fr
for spanish: www.domain.com/es
......

so given this, I can't set up on www.domain.com root a simple intro page with language selection because can not be accessed

[Per Yngve Berg]

Have you cleared the cache after the change?

A cookie for the language is also stored in the browser. You may delete that if it points to the codeless language.

[IKse7en]

ok
is pointless to explain to you more.
please do some test, setup multiple languages on a test site, publish the module and then please try to access your basic domain address www.testsitedomain.com... you will see that will redirerct you to the default language page www.testsitedomain.com/en,fr,de (or what language is inserted)

[IKse7en]

ok, I think that I found the solution
setup "Remove URL Language Code" to YES, then the home page for the default language will have the root www.domain.com . suppose that the english is the default language.
in language manager, content section, we have to add 2 english tag languages, 1 with the English (United Kingdom) en-GB tag and other with English (USA) en-US tag, we setup one for the home page with language selection intro option with the root www.domain.com and other for the english content www.domain.com/en.

I think it works

[infograf768]

The issue remains.

When you create a en-US Content language and install the en-US language pack, you have to add the "us" URL Language Code as you can't use the same one for both en-US and en-GB content languages. Then set en-US as default site language. If the plugin is set to remove that code, you will indeed get mysite.com as url. You also have to create at least one specific menu with a Home menu item for en-US.

This means that the en-US choice will be proposed in the language switcher module and that any time one clicks on the flag/name for en-US, it will redirect to the Home page for en-US, which I suppose would only display a language switcher module instance tagged to en-US.

I guess this could be overriden by a custom layout for the module that would not display en-US if the module is displayed in a page using another content language.

[IKse7en]

you are absolutely right
but what I did was that I changed the flag gif picture with an other 1px transparent (or a simple bar) gif and I put it on the last position.
I took this option to solve the issue... at this moment is no other solution and for now I'm satisfied.