How to redirect from one language to different languages (switch language context)? [#1682288]

My default language is German and I always use prefixes.

When accessing www.domain.com/products/product Drupal will redirect to the default language www.domain.com/de/products/product.

I want www.domain.com/products/product to be redirected to www.domain.com/en/gorgeous-products/new-product which is at node/123. As Drupal first redirects to the default prefix, I have to redirect from German or All languages. But I can't change the language context with the Redirect module. It will redirect me to www.domain.com/de/node/123. Using /en/node/123 will redirect to www.domain.com/de/en/node/123.

What is going wrong? I tried to disable all other redirection modules, but it does not help.

When I redirect to a node url shouldn't the language context be switched to the node's language?

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	i18n_context_redirect.zip	1.82 KB	Wolfgang Reszel

Comments

Comment #1

johnzzon

Swedish

Gothenburg 🇸🇪

commented 30 July 2012 at 14:15

I'm in a similar position. Having upgraded an old site to Drupal, I want to redirect an old path which no longer exists to the english frontpage. Swedish is the default language though, so it will only redirect to the swedish frontpage. Even if I set a complete URL http://example.com/en, the module seems to be a wee bit too clever and only leaves "en" in the field. This redirects to http://example.com/sv/en as described by Wolfgang Reszel.

Comment #2

scribbler commented 2 August 2012 at 14:46

Version:	7.x-1.x-dev	» 7.x-1.0-beta4
Category:	bug	» support

Not sure, if i have the same issue but it seems very likely and i couldn't find any helping ressources yet. This is my issue:

Domain www.example.de with two languages /de and /en as folder prefixes. German is default, so a normal article will be found with
www.example.de/de/my-german-article or www.example.de/my-german-article

There are some old html-pages in the root directory i want to redirect:
www.example.de/old-article.html

So i created a redirect 'old-article.html' -> 'new-article' but this will not be redirected. 'www.example.de/old-article.html' shows the old page. I tried 'www.example.de/de/old-article.html' and this is redirected to the new page in Drupal. It seems the language-prefix 'de/' is not shown in the redirect 'From' field, but is internally used. How can i get this to work? Is something misconfigured? Is it impossible?

Thanks for every help.