Different URLs for languages

[matduke@gmail.com]

I'm using Joomla 1.6 with AceSEF and I bought GTranslate.

I only need 3 languages for my site, and I need to be able to manually choose the URLs for all my pages, which I already can do for my main language using AceSEF.

My main language is french. ~40% of the pages are in English and ~10% of the pages are in Spanish.

Also, I need a language switcher button which will point to the respective page in a different language if it exist, and redirect to home page if there is no translation. (yes, I want some pages to remain untranslated).

So to sum it up, I want to know how to :

- Have a language switcher button that points to the respective page
- Different URLs for all language (not only in a /en folder, but also a different filename
ex. french : www.mysite.com/patates.html
www.mysite.com/en/potatos.html
www.mysite.com/es/papas.html

- ...and if the page has no translation, the language switch link needs to point to the respective language's home page.

Thanks!

[Edvard]

Mixed content is not a problem, you can turn on language auto detect feature...

The language switcher can be customized to do what you need.
You can use .htaccess to make the rewriting of the URLs.

[matduke@gmail.com]

Also, can I get Gtranslate to work locally? (I work on my client's site on my computer with xampp)

Thank you.

[matduke@gmail.com]

Also, I use AceSEF for URL rewriting to get exactly the URLs I want for everything, and I need to avoid using visible redirections. (links that point to one address and make you end to another)

Therefore, I don't know if .htaccess redirection would work. (need the links in site to point to their destination)

[Edvard]

You can use it on your localhost, you just need to configure your hosts file to direct your domain name to your local server.

AceSEF is compatible with GTranslate Pro.