Lost in translation: url changes but no translation

**dzak** · 13 February, 2010, 13:53 PM

Hi all,
Trying to test this nice tool at
www.instrade.bg/login_forma.php

Two problems so far: when I click translate link, the url changes, but no translation actually occurs.
Also, once visited "translated" page the links for the other langs become mess:
www.instrade.bg/lang/ko/lang/ja/login_forma.php

Any hints?

**rapidspider1** · 16 February, 2010, 07:45 AM

just like with me

https://www.investmentscorner.com/index-3.php

**dzak** · 16 February, 2010, 09:39 AM

Yes it's same...
I beleive it is something connected with mod rewrite.

BTW you must change the image name for flags to us.gif, fr.gif, etc.

**rapidspider1** · 16 February, 2010, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by dzak

Yes it's same...
I beleive it is something connected with mod rewrite.

BTW you must change the image name for flags to us.gif, fr.gif, etc.

yes i know but it's only for to try so the link is enough for now

can you explain that the mod rewrite as i'am not familiar with it

**dzak** · 16 February, 2010, 19:49 PM

its an apache (web server) module, used for permanent redirects through the htaccess file.
More info here

Be careful if you wanna play with this

**perfectblue** · 17 February, 2010, 14:54 PM

Seeming to work fine... now
just checked ur site

**rapidspider1** · 18 February, 2010, 01:18 AM

which site? i checked them both but not working for me

**dzak** · 25 February, 2010, 11:41 AM

Status update: Problem solved by simply removing php from excluded filetypes at htaccess file. Big thanks to floydax.
Status update: I will post additional data as per Post Trouble Report

* The URL of the site you are translating
http://www.instrade.bg/test-google.php
* The URL to a copy of version.php running on your site
http://www.instrade.bg/phpinfo.php
* Does the issue affect Google Translate, Yahoo Babelfish, or both?
Never tested Yahoo - but I doubt if this is the issue
* What hosting company is your web site hosted at?
host.bg
* Which version of the Translation Script are you running? (Look at the top of translate/translate.php)
Missing version info - but is the last oneq, from a few days ago
* What version of Apache are you running? (1.3 or 2.x)
1.3
* Does your Apache configuration have mod_rewrite enabled?
Yes
* If you are calling the script from html files, is your Apache configured to support PHP code embedded in html files?
I'm calling .php files
* Does your host support cURL?
Yes
* Is PHP safe_mode disabled on your host?
Yes
* What HTML/JavaScript/PHP/etc... code are you using to call the script?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Тестово изречение за превод</p>
<table width="100%" align="center">
                                <tr>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/bg<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/bg.gif" alt="Bulgarian" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/en<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/uk.gif" alt="English" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/de<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/de.gif" alt="German" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/es<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/es.gif" alt="Spanish" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/fr<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/fr.gif" alt="French" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/it<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/ita.gif" alt="Italian" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/pt<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/pt.gif" alt="Portuguese" border="0"></a> </td>
                                 </tr>
                                 <tr>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/ru<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/ru.gif" alt="Russian" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/ja<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/jp.gif" alt="Japanese" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/ko<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/kr.gif" alt="Korean" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/gr<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/gr.gif" alt="Greece" border="0"></a> </td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/zh-CN<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/cn.gif" alt="Chinese" border="0"></a></td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/ar<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/sa.gif" alt="Arabic" border="0"></a></td>
                                    <td><a href="/lang/cz<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="/translate/graphics/cz.gif" alt="Czech" border="0"></a> </td>
                                </tr>
                                  </table>
 
</body>
</html>

* What error messages are you seeing in your Apache server logs?
no errors
* What error messages are you seeing when you try to translate a page?
no errors, url changes but no actual translation occurs and after the first redirection the language links are messed:
example:
first click: http://www.instrade.bg/lang/de/translate/test-google.php
second click: http://www.instrade.bg/lang/de/lang/en/test-google.php but url @ the address bar stop changes anymore