GTranslate and JoomFish specific pages

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Hi,
I am using an GTranslate Pro and I am trying to integrate it with JoomFish.
Basicly, what I am trying to do is to translate only few pages manually, with JoomFish, in specific languages (e.g. german,russian,greek) and the rest of the (german,russian,greek) pages to be translated by GTranslate.
Also, the rest of the website, which is not required to be translated manually, to be translated by GTranslate.
Is this possible with GTranslate? and how?

I've found some guides of doing it with free version but not in pro.

[Edvard]

Yes, you can add check conditions before rewriting the language to GTranslate:

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# gtranslate config
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/(.*)$ /$1/$3 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/de # the language code handled by JoomFish
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/el # the language code handled by JoomFish
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/(.*)$ /gtranslate/translate.php?lang=$1&url=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/de # the language code handled by JoomFish
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/el # the language code handled by JoomFish
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)$ /gtranslate/translate.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]


[[email protected]]

Thanks for prompt response,
In the suggested code all of the (de,el) pages will be translated manually with JoomFish.

But, what I am trying to do is : to translate only 4 pages in JoomFish out of 40 of language "de". The other 36 "de" pages to be handaled by GTranslate. The same applays to the "ru" language.
I think that, I need to call somehow, in the "Missing Translation" plugin of JoomFish, the GTranslate to do the job, when the translation is missing.

[Edvard]

If you know the URL of the pages you want to be handled by JoomFish instead, you can write longer exception instead of just !^/de, it can be like this: ^!/de/my_page_url.html
You can add more than one RewriteCond and it will use AND logic.

[[email protected]]

I think your approach is straitforward, and should do be enough for few pages.
In my case I have more than 8 languages x 4 JoomFish Pages = 32 UrI (at least)

Are you sure that there is no easy way to handle this situation? It could become managment nightmare
Thanks

[Edvard]

You can use Regular Expressions to add the exceptions. Please read also mod_rewrite documentation on apache.org.

Like (en|ru|it) will be treat as en or ru or it, etc...
That will decrease the number of lines to be added in the .htaccess

[[email protected]]

Thanks,
If it is no trouble could you provide a sample of code,
also the above code Give's me 500 server error:(

[Edvard]

Make sure that you add correct line breaks, so every condition or rule is on one line.

As I mentioned you can use this below to not add the same for every language.

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(de|el|ru)/the_rest_url.html


[[email protected]]

Hi,
Everything work superb as you suggested, except for the home page:

I wrote for the home page

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(de|el|ru)/

but it gives me:
http://www.domain.com/de/ ---> it gives me the Index of /de ... and not the page
http://www.domain.com/el/ ---> it gives me the Index of /el... and not the page
hot to fix it?
thanks

[Edvard]

You can use $ which means the end of the line, ^ means the beginning.

So it will be !^/(de|el|ru)/$

[[email protected]]

I have tried several combinations ...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(el|de|ru)/$ --> Index of /de

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/(el|de|ru)/$ --> GTranslate page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(el|de|ru)$/ --> GTranslate page