Disable default language redirect and add a splash page

[Faisal]

Hi all,

I have this website project with multi-language support: English is the default language and Arabic as a secondary language.

The installed language modules are: (Languages Support, Languages Support - Fields, and Languages Support - Page Names)

Homepage settings: page name: "en" for English and "ar" for Arabic.

So the current links are:

domain.com/en is redirecting to domain.com/ for English

And domain/ar for Arabic

 

But the project owner want's to do these changes:

domain.com/ act as a splash page (have website logo and language select) only.

domain.com/en the English version (and make the home link go to domain.com/en insted of domain.com/) when looping the nave tree for example:

echo renderTopNav($homepage->children->prepend($homepage));

domain.com/ar the Arabic version

 

I try to bypass the redirect but I failed to do anything about it.

Any help or notes making this happen is highly appreciated,

Thank you.

 

 

[tpr]

I guess you need to set "Yes" in "Default language homepage URL is same as root URL?" here:

/admin/module/edit?name=LanguageSupportPageNames

Plus adjust the Home page's url at its Settings tab (enter "en").

Then examine the url in your home template file and if it's only "domain.com" (without "/en") then show the welcome page.

[Faisal]

21 minutes ago, tpr said:

I guess you need to set "Yes" in "Default language homepage URL is same as root URL?" here:

/admin/module/edit?name=LanguageSupportPageNames

Plus adjust the Home page's url at its Settings tab (enter "en").

Then examine the url in your home template file and if it's only "domain.com" (without "/en") then show the welcome page.

 

 

Thank you @tpr

I have the settings exactly as you said in the first place.

[Faisal]

I think I need to have "Default language homepage URL is same as root URL?" set to "no" in /admin/module/edit?name=LanguageSupportPageNames

so that home link go to domain.com/en insted of domain.com/ when looping home children in navbar etc...

Now I am trying to find out how to make domain.com/ show splash page content rather than the default content

in my _out.php Append template file

$pageindexurl = $_SERVER[HTTP_HOST].$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI];    

if ($pageindexurl == "/") {
    include_once("./_layoutspalsh.php"); // layout for splash page
} else {
    include_once("./_layouthtml.php"); // default layout for home/lang* and all other pages 
}

But domain.com is redirecting to domain.com/en before anything else