Thread: site not braking out of the lang folder

Hi when i am on a folder

www.mysite.com/folder/

if i click lets say german its fine..

www.mysite.com/folder/lang/de/

but then it stickes and i can break out of it, say if i try to go to spanish i get this file with the error

www.mysite.com/lang/de/folder/lang/es/folder/

even trying to go back to english i get this

www.mysite.com/lang/de/folder/lang/en/folder/

it works fine on any non folder pages it can move throw the langs fine and it can break out.

but the folder options translate but won,t break out of that folder.???

anyone else seen this problem before or know how to fix it as i'm stumped

Are you using php?
If so check at your .htaccess file the line under:
# Various extentions that are not translated
and remove php if exist

Originally Posted by dzak

Are you using php?
If so check at your .htaccess file the line under:
# Various extentions that are not translated
and remove php if exist

thanks for trying to help

that was in there and i have removed it but it still locks in folders.

the lower level works fine but as soon as a enter a folder page on the site it can not break out of folder pages.

even if i try to go the the home page from a translated folder page it classes the folder as the / level and takes me to.

www.mysite.com/lang/de/folder/

click on a link that shoud be

www.mysite.com/lang/de/file.html

it takes me to

www.mysite.com/lang/de/folder/file.html

hope i have explaind this right, the main thing is once i hit a translated folder page it won't let me leave that folder and treats it as the lowest level of the site IE

www.mysite.com

would i be right in thinking my problem is to do with this rewrite code...

RewriteRule ^[^/]+/(lang|ylang)/(.*)$ $1/$2 [R=301,L]

i'm trying to get this...

RewriteRule ^/lang/es/folder/$ /lang/de/folder/lang/es/folder/ [R=301,L]

but my rewrite skills are not good enough to know if that is what the first code is supposed to do

Hi just an update as there dosn't seem to be any regular support here anymore for this scropt.

i have found a very poor way of fixing this by adding this rewrite to the translate

htaccess file

RewriteRule ^[^/]+/de/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/es/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/fr/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/it/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/pt/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/ru/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/ja/folder(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/ko/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/zh/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/nl/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/el/folder/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]

i had to do this for every folder on my site, not the best way to fix this but as i have only myself for help it the only one i could work out, hope this helps someone out

there prob is a far shorter rewrite for this like

RewriteRule ^[^/]+/(de|el|fr|etc|etc)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ ../$1/$2 [R=301,L]

but like i said above i am not great with mod rewrite and i think this problem is because of other rewrites i have on my site.

hopefully some clever person will come here and give you a better fix but for me i just can't leave a busy live site with such a flaw.

thanks again to dzak for trying to help out, but i think with Will going on the missing list this scripts days may be numbered which is a real shame as i have been running it on my site for years now.