Let me explain the problem. We have a website in 2 languages: fr & nl (dutch).
When you arrive on our website, you land on http://www.domain.be which redirects
you (as you can see in the following code) to the dutch version if your browser language
is set to ‘nl’ and if it’s set to ‘en’ (because dutch people often use this language for they browser) or leave you on http://www.domain.be / fr.domain.be (both url are work to call the website – the fr… one is more in response of the nl… one)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^nl [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://nl.domain.be/ [L,R]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://nl.domain.be/ [L,R]
</IfModule>
On the website, you can choose, by clicking on 2 links (in the top right corner), if you want to go to fr.domain.be or nl.domain.be.
When you click on one of those link, the htaccess redirects you even if you want to go to the fr part (while navigating on the dutch one) and the same on the nl part.
How can I solve that? I would like the htaccess to only redirect you when you first come to the website but then be desactivated and allow the user to choose his language if he wants to.
Could you please help me? I’m on this for like two days…
You’re only redirecting the site base
/, so swith directly to another page should not be a problem.Can’t you just use a fake index page when you manually switch ? Like http://nl.domain.be/index