[Solved]Broken File Download Links

[mwangner]

I am using Gtranslate Pro. It works very well for the website, but it is breaking links for downloadable files.

For instance:

http://www.aventuracctv.com/download/sp ... Series.pdf

When browsing the spanish version of our website that link looks like this instead:

http://www.aventuracctv.com/es/download ... Series.pdf

Except it doesn't work (because there is no file there). I tried adding class="notranslate" to the <a href> statement but that didn't prevent gtranslate pro from rewriting the link. How can I solve this?

Thanks!

[Yana]

Hi,
You can write a rule in your .htaccess to redirect links to the original language. Here is an example
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/download/(.*) /download/$2 [R=301,L]

[mwangner]

There is no way to do this in the HTML or in the gtranslate code files? I am running on IIS 6.0 with a third-party redirect which is very difficult to understand (took us weeks to figure out how to do the gtranslate language redirects).

[Yana]

Hi,
You can convert it for IIS web.config.

[mwangner]

What would the code be for web.config?

[Edvard]

Can you please send the redirect rules you have created for GTranslate, so we can write the necessary code for you?

[mwangner]

Absolutely, this is what I have now:

<rewrite url="^(/.+(\.gif|\.png|\.php|\.swf|\.dwg|\.jpg|\.jad|\.cod|\.flv|\.mp4|\.xml|\.eps|\.css|\.html|\.ico|\.pdf|\.rtf|\.doc|\.css|\.zip|\.js)(\?.+)?)$" to="$1" processing="stop" />
<rewrite url="^/(af|ar|az|be|bg|bn|ca|cs|cy|da|de|el|en|es|at|eu|fa|fi|fr|ga|gl|gu|hi|hr|ht|hu|hy|id|is|it|iw|ja|ka|kn|ko|lt|lv|mk|ms|mt|nl|no|pl|pt|ro|ru|sk|sl|sq|sr|sv|sw|ta|te|th|tl|tr|uk|ur|vi|yi|zh-CN|zh-TW)?/(.*)$" to="/gtranslate/translate.php?lang=$1&amp;url=$2" processing="stop" />
<if url="^(.*)/(\?.+)?$">
<rewrite exists="$1/default.aspx" to="$1/default.aspx$2" />
<rewrite exists="$1/default.asp" to="$1/default.asp$2" />
<rewrite exists="$1/index.asp" to="$1/index.asp$2" />
<rewrite exists="$1/index.php" to="$1/index.php$2" />
</if>
<unless exists="^(.+)$">
<rewrite url="^/(.+)/(.+)/" to="~/product/list.asp?subcatename=$1&amp;catname=$2" processing="stop" />
<rewrite url="^/(.+)/(\?(.+))?$" to="~/product/default.asp?catname=$1" processing="stop" />
</unless>

[mwangner]

Edvard, do you have the code I would need to do this yet?

[Edvard]

You need to add this before <rewrite url="^/(af|ar|az|... line:

<redirect url="^/(af|ar|az|be|bg|bn|ca|cs|cy|da|de|el|en|es|at|eu|fa|fi|fr|ga|gl|gu|hi|hr|ht|hu|hy|id|is|it|iw|ja|ka|kn|ko|lt|lv|mk|ms|mt|nl|no|pl|pt|ro|ru|sk|sl|sq|sr|sv|sw|ta|te|th|tl|tr|uk|ur|vi|yi|zh-CN|zh-TW)?/download/(.*)$" to="/download/$2" />

For more info about redirect tag please check this: http://urlrewriter.net/index.php/suppor ... s/redirect

[mwangner]

This works very well, thank you!

[jasons]

Hello - I have run into this same problem as well. Could someone send me the full code I need to place in the .htaccess file to get my PDF links to work?

[Yana]

Hi,
Please send me the pdf file link example.

[jasons]

Yana - Here is the PDF link in English
*removed link*

Here it is in French
*removed link*

It works in English but not in any of the other languages. I noticed that it does this for all PDF's on my site.
I am running the Pro version of GTranslate.

[Yana]

Hi,
Here is the rule:

RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/images/agenda/(.*) /images/agenda/$2 [R=301,L]

[jasons]

Yana - Should this be placed in the .htaccess file?

[Yana]

Hi,
Yes , you should put it after RewriteEngine On .

[jasons]

That worked, thanks Yana!

[Yana]

Good to hear that! You are welcome.