Need to temporarily redirect my second language home url to my first language

[Chacapamac]

We were in a hurry, and we put on a bilingual web site online. My secondary language is not finish. I like to to temporarily redirect my second language home url to my first language?

I’m trying Joomla redirect tool but it dont seem to work so far?

It will take a week to be able to open the second language to the public.

[Per Yngve Berg]

Mod. Note: Relocated the topic to the Language Forum.

Have you unpublished the language?

[Chacapamac]

Thanks Per Yngve Berg
This is a brand new website and it needed to be put online even if the english side (second language) is not finish

I was surprise that Google still index the english home page and I need to redirect to the french side temporarily.

I think I need my second language (English) accessible to be able to finish the modifications ?

What I did so far:
— I exclude everything English from the Sitemap submitted to Google
— All English menu item, not Unpublished but all Super user permissions and no-index - no follow

Trying now to do a 307 redirect directly in my htaccess (I’m using Akeeba Admin Htaccess Maker)

[Webdongle]

If you redirect in .htaccess then won't Joomla just redirect on browser language?
System - Language Filter ... disable the plugin.

[Chacapamac]

It seem to work now,

My htacces redirect (at the last line in the htaccess)

Redirect 307 /en/ https://mywebsite.com

My setup of the plugin “System - Language Filter ”
Note: My browser is english

plugin.jpg

Need to speed up my english version....

[Webdongle]

Automatic language change set to NO probably stops the .htaccess redirect looping?

[Chacapamac]

I’m not sure but what I find weird is that even with omitting anything english on my sitemap Google pick-up the english home. I guess you can’t hide the multilingual part of a multilingual Joomla website?