Multilingual page url overwrite

[Michael Petry]

Hello there,

I am having an issue in dotCMS where the url of a multilingual page that I have created is being overwritten with the last language's url I publish.

The first page I created was in English, so I filled out details such as title, url, friendly name, etc and then moved on to create its French equivalent with the same details but in French (screenshot 1).

When I toggled between the pages to make sure everything looked good I noticed that the url for the English page was now what I had assigned to the French page (screenshot 2).

What I was hoping I would be able to do is to create a page and have different URL's for each language, for instance:

www.mydomain.com/test-page-english

www.mydomain.com/page-de-teste-en-fracais

Does anyone know what might be causing this to happen?

Thanks,

Mike.

[Falzone, Chris]

You can't have different urls if using just a static page (AFAIK).  Only if you use content with a URL Map and a detail page.

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[Michael Petry]

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for your reply. 

So if I wanted to create a simple static about us page in two languages, there is no way I can have /about-us and /a-propos-de-nous as the URL for each language?

Would the only option then be to use language queries like about-us?language_id=2 and then use a vanity url if I wanted the french page to read something different?

Thanks once again,

Michael.

[Xander Steinmann]

Hi Michael,

You need to decide how you want to set up your multilingual site. You can:

1. Have the same URLs in all languages: easier to switch language and find a page but you kind of require a page to be available in all languages (or default to a single language)
2. Have different URLs in languages: You get more pages (duplication) but become more flexible in which pages you want per language. It's a bit harder to change language unless you want to switch to the homepage

Both options have their pros and cons. We tend to go for option 2, for instance with /en and /fr folders and use vanity URLs to make sure the correct language is set.

Kind regards,

Xander