Language URL in language config PHP file ignored?

1

Hello!

I’m running this website

krickelkrackel.com

and I’m running into an issue with Google correcting “Krickelkrackel”, when people search for it (if they do? ;)) into “Krickelkrakel” (the ‘correct’ German writing of this nonsense word). So I’m creating a fantasy locale “kr” as a SEO measure, where all occurances of “Krickelkrackel” are turned into “Krickel-Krakel”. Fine!

I created the language, I updated the content for it, and I set

krickel-krakel.com

up to serve my Kirby installation. I added this as the kr.php language config:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'kr',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'kr'
    ],
    'name' => 'Krakel',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => "https://www.krickel-krakel.com"
];

My main config.php is this:

<?php

return [

    // https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/options/panel#custom-panel-css
    'panel' => [
      'css' => 'assets/css/panel.css'
    ],

    // https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/options/languages
    //'debug' => true,
    'languages' => true,
    'languages.detect' => true,

    // https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/options/smartypants
    'smartypants' => true,

...

So language detect is on (which I’d like to keep) - but also when I turn it off, it doesn’t serve my new ‘kr’ language from the krickel-krakel.com domain.

Any ideas are appreciated! :slight_smile: Thank you!

2

I made some further experiments, now I’m trying to have

www.krickel-krakel.com

to be the domain for the DE site:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'de',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'de_DE'
    ],
    'name' => 'Deutsch',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => "https://www.krickel-krakel.com"

];

and

krickelkrackel.com

for the EN site:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'en',
    'default' => true,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'en_US'
    ],
    'name' => 'English',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => 'https://www.krickelkrackel.com'
];

and I removed the domain for the (fantasy) KR language for now:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'kr',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'LC_ALL' => 'kr'
    ],
    'name' => 'Krakel',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => NULL
];
    //'url' => "https://www.krickel-krakel.com"

… to no luck, all sites serve the EN version for some reason. The /de paths don’t work either, for some reason…

Again, any ideas would be highly appreciated! Thank you!

3

(Should I try to delete the KR language entirely for now?)

4

I think so, yes. Might even have unwanted side effects, since kr is an official language code?

5

Ok, I did delete the kr.php file – with language detection switched off, it’s still serving the EN version from the “DE” domain, krickel-krakel.com - do you have any other ideas? Thank you so much!

6

That’s weird.

But what I also notice it that clicking on a link sends me to https://www.krickelkrackel.com/the-idea instead of remaining on the same site. Something seems to be wrong in the setup

7

Got it! I had this left in my config.php:

// Support for language detect option https://getkirby.com/docs/guide/languages/introduction#automatic-language-detection
'routes' => [
  [
      'pattern' => '/',
      'action'  => function () {
          $session = kirby()->session();

          if ($session->get('languages.detect', false) === false && option('languages.detect') === true) {
              $session->set('languages.detect', true);

              return kirby()
                  ->response()
                  ->redirect(kirby()->detectedLanguage()->url());
          }

          return page();
      }
    ]
],

Removing it caused the odd behaviour to stop, and now it works nicely. Thank you! :slight_smile: