Language selector not working when switching to friendly SEO

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Language selector not working when switching to friendly SEO

Post by cyw » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:15 am

Using Joomla 3.3.6 we have the following problem:

If we switch Search Engine Friendly URL's to "Yes" in the Global configuration, the language selector in the frontend doesn't work anymore. We see the site tries to find the right page and times out after some time reporting with an empty page 404 error. If we reload the frontend from the backend it keeps reporting 404 error until we set the selected language manually. Then the new language shows, but again another language cannot be selected.

Switching back to "No" repairs this problem and we have a fine working language selector.

Please help us with this issue as SEO friendliness is vital to our website.

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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by infograf768 » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:40 am

Have you modified the name of the htaccess file?
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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by cyw » Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:27 am

Hello thank you for your response, I'm really at a dead end here.

I have not changed the .htacces file. We use Akeeba Admin Tools to generate the .htaccess. In the /public_HTML directory I see two files: .htaccess and .htaccess.admintools. They are not identical, but roughly the same size.

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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:02 am

Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

Can you post the content of your current .htaccess file.

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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by cyw » Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:53 pm

Hello Per Yngve,

I have attached the .htaccess file as you requested.

Kind regards, Paul Vos
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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:44 pm

It's a lot of junk in your .htaccess file. Suggest trying with the core htaccesst.xt

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Re: Language selector not working when switching to friendly

Post by cyw » Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:27 pm

Hello Per Yngve,

Thanks to your advise, I have the multi lingual option working again together with SEO friendly settings.

Thank you so much for taking me seriously. This is what the forum should be about.

Can you advise me where I can find information on the do's and don'ts with htaccess?

Kind regards, Paul Vos.


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