Forum Archive - Help wtih subdirectory URL please

Hello, I hoped you might be able to help me with a problem I have. I am using GTranslate Pro version. It is a similar problem to this post gtranslate/disable-translation-subdirectories-t21.html but slightly more complicated. At the moment my links are, for example for French: http://mydomain.com/fr/sub-directory/ But for one sub-directory called 'forum' I need the link to not be http://mydomain.com/fr/forum/ but instead it must be http://mydomain.com/forum/fr/ and the same format for every language. Would you have time to tell me how I could alter the .htaccess file to set this rule (for the forum subdirectory only) please? Thank you for your time.

You can try to add this: RewriteRule /forum/fr/ /fr/forum/ [QSA] ... # gtranslate config

Thanks for your reply, that was very nice of you. But I need to do this for all languages not just French. Is there a way to do it elegantly, without writing 51 lines (one for each language), please?

Try this instead: RewriteRule /forum/([a-z]{2})/ /$1/forum/ [QSA] RewriteRule /forum/zh-CN/ /zh-CN/forum/ [QSA] RewriteRule /forum/zh-TW/ /zh-TW/forum/ [QSA] ... # gtranslate config

Excellent. Many thanks, that seemed to work. Great product!

I don't know what has happened because I thought before it worked after a quick test but just now when I tried to implement this properly nothing happened. Is there a checklist of things I should check? I made sure that I cleared the cache, but nothing seems to have changed. I am using this SE friendly URLs extension for Joomla 1.5: http://www.sakic.net/products/sef_advance/ Do you think I have to make any changes in the settings for that component, please? Thanks for your help.

Access http://yourdomain.com/forum/ru/ and write here what happens.

Thanks for your help. It goes to http://yourdomain.com/forum/ru/ OK, just as it is supposed to

Do you see the Russian version?

Yes but that is because I have another translation package for my forum. The problem is that all the links on my Joomla menu to /ru/forum/ are not being changed to /forum/ru/

I think you are mixing something. You need to rewrite /ru/forum/ to /forum/ru/ or vice-versa? Currently it is set to redirect /forum/ru/ to /ru/forum/

Yes exactly, I need to rewrite /ru/forum/ to /forum/ru/ ! I am sorry if I have been wasting your time here. What code would I place in the root htaccess file to rewrite /ru/forum/ to /forum/ru/ please? (and to rewrite similarly for every other language too)

This should be it: RewriteRule /([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/forum/ /forum/$1/ [QSA] ... # gtranslate config

I really appreciate your help but unfortunately that didn't seem to do anything. Accessing /ru/forum/ does not direct me to /forum/ru/ Any ideas what could be wrong, please? I tried clearing Joomla's cache and restarting my web server

Currently it should show the content of the target without the redirect. If you want it to redirect, you can use this: RewriteRule /([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/forum/ /forum/$1/ [R=301,L]

I think there is something fundamentally worng on my site. It seems like no changes I make in my .htaccess file have any effect (including the RewriteRule you just told me). Do you have any ideas what could be wrong? Is it to do with my SEF component in Joomla? I have another .htaccess file inside the /forum/ directory so could that be affecting this? I would not expect so, but I need to explain everything just in case.

It is hard to tell. But SEF component installed in joomla have nothing to do with .htaccess rules, if you didn't put special rules for that component in the .htaccess. Try to write something not correct in your file and see if that gives you 500 server error, in that case you can be sure that it works. It is also can be that the browser cached it and it doesn't send requests to the server. Try to use a different browser or make a hard refresh Ctrl+F5.

I put the line "blah" in my .htaccess file and restarted the web server but I did not get a 500 server error. I read something about AllowOverRide = none cuasing this problem but that isn't in my htaccess file. Any ideas, please?

I think this is an issue with my web server's configuration. It is almost certainly nothing to do with your component so thanks very much for your help and I will resolve this on my own. Regards