Language Redirect

Hiyas,

I guess you all know the Apache2 Documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

They handle their displayed language with type-maps as you can also
choose another language via a link. I tried it on my homeserver and its
working fine, but I also want to have it on a website that I'm having at
hosteurope.de. So as I don't have access to the httpd.conf I'm trying to
get it work with .htaccess and its an Apache 1.3 so this is what I got now:

*code*
AddHandler type-map var
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage de .de
LanguagePriority en de
<Files *.var>
SetHandler type-map
</Files>
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en)/ prefer-language=$1
Redirect 301 /manual/de http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual
Redirect 301 /manual/en http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual
*code*

So this is working as far as the type-maps go, but clicking a link
doesn't change anything (language). It must be something with the
SetEnvIf but I can't get it working.

Here the orginal code apache.org is using:

*code*
AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru))?(/.*)?$
"C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache2/manual$1"

<Directory "C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache2/manual">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

<Files *.html>
SetHandler type-map
</Files>

SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru)/
prefer-language=$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$
/manual/$1$2
</Directory>
*code*

Thx
Alex

Alexander Scheurer wrote:
>
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en)/ prefer-language=$1
> Redirect 301 /manual/de http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual
> Redirect 301 /manual/en http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual

That won't work because the environment variable set by SetEnvIf is
lost when doing a Redirect. That is why the original version uses
Alias, where the translation is internal and the environment variable
is retained.

If you have access to mod_rewrite, you can try RewriteRule. Otherwise,
I think you are out of luck.

Joshua.

Alexander Scheurer wrote:
[snip]
> SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en)/ prefer-language=$1
> Redirect 301 /manual/de http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual
> Redirect 301 /manual/en http://www.bsc-truchtelfingen.de/manual
> *code*
>
> So this is working as far as the type-maps go, but clicking a link
> doesn't change anything (language). It must be something with the
This is probably stupid, but should not the second 301 be
truchtelfingen.EN ?

I am a beginner but if you are as lazy a typist as I am you copied and
pasted the actual code. (it sure looks wrong to me)

HTH
TK
who often can not see the forest for the trees.

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