How to setup two languages with support for no language provided?

[janhartmann]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this great library which seems very powerful. But I am not sure how to setup this scenario:

I wish to support two languages: Danish (da) and English (en). I wish to have the "/" of my websites language be determent by the browser user language. I wish to have "/da/" returning the Danish culture and "/en/" returning the english culture.

My problem with the setup below is that "/" is determent by the browser user language (great!) and I can access the site on "/en/" which turns the resources to English (great!) - but I can not access the site on /da/ which just returns 404?

I need this for SEO purpose, as I wish to provide these tags to google:

 <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/en/" hreflang="en" /> 
 <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/da/" hreflang="da" /> 
 <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/" hreflang="x-default" /> 

At the moment my setup is:

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.LowercaseUrls = true;
            routes.AppendTrailingSlash = true;
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes(Localization.LocalizationDirectRouteProvider);

            const string defaultCulture = "en";
            ISet<string> acceptedCultures = new HashSet<string> { defaultCulture, "da" };

            routes.Localization(configuration => {
                configuration.DefaultCulture = defaultCulture;
                configuration.AcceptedCultures = acceptedCultures;
                configuration.AttributeRouteProcessing = AttributeRouteProcessing.AddAsNeutralAndDefaultCultureRoute;
                configuration.AddCultureAsRoutePrefix = true;
            }).Translate(localization =>
            {
                localization.TranslateInitialAttributeRoutes();
            });

            CultureSensitiveHttpModule.GetCultureFromHttpContextDelegate = Localization.DetectCultureFromBrowserUserLanguages(acceptedCultures, defaultCulture);
        }

And this filter:

        public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
        {
            filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
            filters.Add(new CultureSensitiveActionFilterAttribute());
        }

With this controller:

    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        [Route]
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            var model = new IndexViewModel
            {
                SendContactEmailCommand = new SendContactEmail()
            };

            return View(model);
        }
    }

[Dresel]

Please read https://github.com/Dresel/RouteLocalization/blob/master/Documentation/TheConfigurationClass.md how TranslateInitialAttributeRoutes works.

If you use AttributeRouteProcessing.AddAsNeutralAndDefaultCultureRoute every attribute route is added as neutral route and as default culture route. This is why your route "/" from the [Route] attribute is added twice, "/" (neutral) and "/en" (english).

After calling TranslateInitialAttributeRoutes you would then start translating your routes. For the empty one this would be

localization.ForCulture("da")
    .ForController<HomeController>()
    .ForAction(x => x.Index())
    .AddTranslation("");

Do you plan to translate your other routes (for example "en/home" for english and "da/hjem" for danish or do you just want to use the prefix ("en/home" and "da/home")?

[janhartmann]

Thanks for your reply, I'll try this out now.

The site is a one-page design - but I would imaging that I would translate the routes e.g "/en/contact" and "/da/kontakt".

Jan

[Dresel]

Ok, so you would then use [Route("contact")] which will result to "/contact" (neutral), "/en/contact" (english) and you could then add the danish one like before:

localization.ForCulture("da")
    .ForController<HomeController>()
    .ForAction(x => x.Contact())
    .AddTranslation("kontakt");

[janhartmann]

Makes sense - thanks a lot :+1: (.AddTranslation("kontakt"); ;-))