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Boris Guéry
Asked: 2010-04-14 00:19:29 +0800 CST

How to redirect to a given page depending on the user locale?

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Is there a way to redirect an user depending on is browser locale ?

For instance, I'd like to redirect to a page called index.en.html all users who doesn't have their browser locale set to French.

Could I do this with Apache and .htaccess ?

apache-2.2 localization mod-rewrite

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Well looking at the documentation I found the MultiViews option.

    Options MultiViews
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage en .en
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
     LanguagePriority fr en
</IfModule>
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  2. You should be able to match the environment variable %{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE} or the HTTP header Accept-Language (with %{HTTP:Accept-Language}) for fr or fr-fr.

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  3. You can use mod_rewrite and test for the Accept-Language header. For example:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} en-us
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en-us/$1 [L]

    Better yet, take a look at mod_negotiation

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html

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