Question

Two month ago I asked, how to realize the routing with language parameter in uri here: Locale in Routing, Default Language also without Parameter

But now, to avoid double content, I want to have the default language (en) without and other languages with parameter. In other words i need to define the route-prefix according to the _locale parameter.

Example

http://example.com/
http://example.com/de/
http://example.com/about/
http://example.com/de/about/
...

Here is my testing setup, which gives me the error show below:

routing.yml:

_site_en:
    resource: "@MyMainBundle/Controller/SiteController.php"
    type:     annotation
    requirements: { _locale : en }
    prefix: /

_site:
    resource: "@MyMainBundle/Controller/SiteController.php"
    type:     annotation
    requirements: { _locale : fr|es|it|de }
    prefix: /{_locale}/

Controller Annotations

 /**
  * @Route( "/", name="_site_startpage", defaults={"_locale" = "", "slug"="startpage"} )
  * @Route("/{slug}/", name="_site_site", defaults={"_locale"=""})
  *
  * @ParamConverter("page", class="MyMainBundle:Page")
  */
public function siteAction( $slug, $_locale, Page $page )

How to do it the right way?

Edit:
As a Result I get an Exception, that the Route to the path is not defined.

No route found for "GET /"
404 Not Found - NotFoundHttpException
1 linked Exception:
ResourceNotFoundException »

router:debug only shows the 2nd route:

_site_startpage                   ANY      /{_locale}/
_site_site                        ANY      /{_locale}/{slug}/

Edit 2:
I ended up using the JMSI18nRoutingBundle…

Answer 1

In your routing.yml for the first, the type “annotation” specifies that your controller must be introspected for routes. Everything else is ignored I think. You should try removing the type or changing it to yml, removing the resource entry and specifying the value of the _controller parameter… I think you should look at what the format for yml route definition actually is.

Or define this default route with an annotation too.