Hi there, I run a the polyglot website http://slint.fr. Currently I add a language code to the requested URL according to the AcceptLanguage header, but this information doesn't always match user wish and I was told that serving different filenames for the same requested URI can prevent proper pages indexing by search engines. So, I will now store web pages in each language in a specific directory, e.g. subdirectories en, it ru, tr, etc. For instance /tr/index.html is in Turkish but /fr/index.html is in French On every page, user can change language clicking on an hyperlink to a page in corresponding directory (provided the same page exists in that language, of course). I want that when a user has requested a localized page (i.e. in a directory other than /en), request of pages from the same user that not include a per language directory in their path be rewritten to the page with the requested filename in the same directory if it exists, else to the page with the same filename in the /en directory. I know that I could set a cookie or use HTTP-REFERER for that, but possibly the browser can be set to refuse cookies or not sent the Referer HTTP header so I'd prefer to avoid that. So my question is : knowing that when a user clicks on a language link we serve a page in the corresponding directory, how could I reuse that information for next request of the same client (same IP address), including it in a RewriteCond directive so that I can serve requested page in the same language directory, if that page exists there. I have considered SetEnvIf directive like this one: SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/slint.fr/(bs|de|el|en|es|fr|id)/.*$" <IP.LANG>=$1 but do not know the variable name I<IP.LANG> cna be set as the Remote_Addr. I have also considered scanning the access log, to find that information I don't know any way to do that. I wish to avoid server side scripting (at present the website is 100% static). Thanks in advance for any clue. Cheers, Didier --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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