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  • Rasmus Lynggaard 118 posts 325 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 11:42
    Rasmus Lynggaard
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    Multiple sites and multilanguage

    Hi

    I've got a problem with a multilingual site. The dictionary items aren't show correctly

    Site structure

    content
    -site1 (www.domain1.com - da-DK)
    --page1
    --page2
    --etc
    -site2 (www.domain2.com - da-DK (language selector))
    --da (www.domain2.com/da - da-DK)
    ----page1
    ----page2
    ----page3
    --en (www.domain2.com/en (en-GB)
    ----page1
    ----page2
    ----page3

    The problem is that when I go to www.domain2.com/en it still uses the danish dictionary items. If I remove the hostname from the site2 node, the dictionary items shows up corretly, but then if I type in www.domain2.com in the browser, I'm redirected to site1.

    Does anybody have an idea on what to do?

    /RALY

  • Mirela Budaes 44 posts 94 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 11:50
    Mirela Budaes
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    I am not sure how you're setting the current language, but when you go to www.domain2.com/en, the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture value should be en-GB and  umbraco.library.Session("lang") should be "en".

    Is it like this?

     

  • Rasmus Lynggaard 118 posts 325 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 11:58
    Rasmus Lynggaard
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    No, this is what I get in Page_Load

    Domains (umbraco.library.GetCurrentDomains(node.Id);)
    Name: www.domain2.com/en/
    Language name: English (United Kingdom)
    Language id: 3
    Language alias: en-GB

    Session lang:

    Thread lang:da-DK

    If I take a look at the umbdebugshowtrace, the last line in pre-init says
    default.aspx    Culture changed to da-DK

  • Mirela Budaes 44 posts 94 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 12:17
    Mirela Budaes
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    I think it doesn't change the session language.

    I don't know how you implemented the multilanguage functionality, so I tell you how I did it. Maybe it helps.

    In the page load event of every page ( in the main master page) :

    1. I get the language from the query string ( I also have domain/language and I use UrlRewriting to set the query string value for language - if you're not using any rewriting, you can parse the url)

    2. I call a function that sets the current language and mainly does this:

            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = currentCulture; //currentCulture = the culture corresponding to the language from the query string

            umbraco.library.setSession("lang", currentCulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName);

     

    If you do this from an xslt (it's an example I've found online), create a template that calls this function call it in the head of the main master page.

    I hope it helps and that I explained well.

  • Rasmus Lynggaard 118 posts 325 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 12:48
    Rasmus Lynggaard
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    That seems like quite a workaround for something that ought to just work.

    I've taken a look at the umbraco source code and to me the following code seems to be the problem. It's in page.cs in \umbraco\presentation

    public string GetCulture()
            {
                if (Domain.Exists(HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"]))
                {
                    Domain d = Domain.GetDomain(HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"]);
                    return d.Language.CultureAlias;
                }
                else
                {
                    for (int i = splitpath.Length - 1; i > 0; i--)
                    {
                        if (Domain.GetDomainsById(int.Parse(splitpath[i])).Length > 0)
                        {
                            return Domain.GetDomainsById(int.Parse(splitpath[i]))[0].Language.CultureAlias;
                        }
                    }
                }
                return "";
            }

     

    If you take a llok at that it first checks to see if the hostnames contains the current ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"]. Because of this check my culture will always be set to da-DK in this example and makes it almost impossible to use directory based hostname setup. Seems like a bug to me?

  • Mirela Budaes 44 posts 94 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 13:32
    Mirela Budaes
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    It does seem like a bug.

    The multilingual site that I created has a different structure. I didn't want 2 different domains, so the document types had properties for each language. This was it was easier to get the same page in each language.

    What I did see is that those 2 (Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture and Session("lang") have to be set correctly to get the correct dictionary items.

    Sorry I can't help you more with this.

  • Rasmus Lynggaard 118 posts 325 karma points
    Jun 15, 2010 @ 13:39
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