Question

I’m looking for a way to set the default language for visitors comming to a site built in EPiServer for the first time. Not just administrators/editors in the backend, people comming to the public site.

Answer 1

Depends on your setup.

If the site languages is to change under different domains you can do this. Add to configuration -> configSections nodes in web.config:

<sectionGroup name='episerver'>   <section name='domainLanguageMappings' allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' allowLocation='false' type='EPiServer.Util.DomainLanguageConfigurationHandler,EPiServer' /> 

..and add this to episerver node in web.config:

  <domainLanguageMappings>     <map domain='site.com' language='EN' />     <map domain='site.se' language='SV' />   </domainLanguageMappings> 

Otherwhise you can do something like this. Add to appSettings in web.config:

<add name='EPsDefaultLanguageBranch' key='EN'/>