Forum Archive - [Solved]Broken File Download Links

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!

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]

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).

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

What would the code be for web.config?

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

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>

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

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

This works very well, thank you!

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?

Hi, Please send me the pdf file link example.

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.

Hi, Here is the rule: RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/images/agenda/(.*) /images/agenda/$2 [R=301,L]

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

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

That worked, thanks Yana!

Good to hear that! You are welcome.