Front page for each language

If you are using i18n module you should post your request on i18n's forum.

Bump? I seem to have the same issue, and my site is at http://www.fiestalinenrentals.com. My front page in English is set to node/5, and that node's translation is node/16. When I'm at my front page and I click on Spanish in the language switcher block, the URL path changes to http://www.fiestalinenrentals.com/es but the node's content itself remains in English. I'd like to hide the translation link at the bottom of the post, but that link *does* take me to the Spanish version of the node.

Possibly related to #775492: Front page node not translated?

I'm not sure why this happens. A work around that should work is to set the url alias of each of your front pages to the same value. eg set the url alias to "home".

http://drupal-translation.com/content/setting-front-page-language

Beautiful, thank you! It would be nice if the "Default front page field" in admin/settings/site-information were localizable so this workaround wasn't necessary. Changing this to a feature request.

It is, http://drupal.org/node/133977

Ah, thanks for that. I didn't know so many things could be translated if you just add them to the multilingual variables array. The book page that deals specifically with this topic, for anyone else interested, is http://drupal.org/node/357248.

You can't set 2 nodes to same alias, you get "The path is already in use." message, can somebody explain this please!!!

deepM, not when it's a translated node.

@deepM You can have two nodes with the same alias, but the aliases need to be for different languages. For example, /home for English can then point to node/6 (or whatever) and /home for Spanish can point to node/200. I'm using that idea on a site I'm working on now to keep all paths the same in all languages. Works great.