Question

I’m developing a multilanguage web app with Yii.

I applied changes to hide the index.php, changed urlFormat to path and added to the url path a slug with the user language example /it/index.php /en/index.php etc…

The problem now is that I need to redirect automatically to a different url once the user chooses another language. For example:

http://localhost/~antonio/project/it/women
needs to redirect to:
http://localhost/~antonio/project/it/femme

I have been playing with htaccess with no luck at all. Here is the actual code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~antonio/project/
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

#My redirection code (tried a good few more to no use apart from this)

RewriteRule ^it/women$ it/femme

I would really appreciate any help on this issue, as it is driving me mad.

Thanks

Edit::

I surrendered with mod_rewrite. I found another solution by adding this code to /layout/main.php:

<?php 
$onurl = Yii::app()->getRequest()->requestUri;
if ($onurl == "/~antonio/project/it/women") {
    $this->redirect("/~antonio/project/it/femme");
} elseif ($onurl == "/~antonio/project/it/men") {
    $this->redirect("/~antonio/project/it/uomme");
} 

Rinse and repeat per combination of language/word

Answer 1

Found a way to do this in htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~antonio/project/it/donna/shoes/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^it/donna/shoes/(.*)$ /~antonio/project/it/donna/calzature/$1 [L,R]