Default language pages appear at the root of the public directory

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1

I find that since I started using Hugo, the default language pages appear at the root of the public directory. Is this the default behaviour if someone wants them to appear at the domain root without language prefix? I thought them appearing in their own language subdirectory for organisation purposes would be better.

2

Yes,

defaults

hugo config --printZero | grep -i tLanguage

defaultcontentlanguage = 'en'
defaultcontentlanguageinsubdir = false
disabledefaultlanguageredirect = false

guess hugo evolved from single site to multisite and multisite was an adddon… maybe you’ll get a statement here from development core.

it’s a one shot setting for the ones that don’t like it :wink:

3

That one ads /en/ to the domain. Hugo Docs is using the same structure but no language prefix added…

4

mmh…maybe we talk about different things

  • single language
    • http://example.com
  • singe language in subdir
    • http://example.com/subdir
    • or http://example.com/en
  • multilang default
    • http://example.com ← default
    • http://example.com/de
  • multilang with default in subdir
    • http://example.com ← redirect to default
    • http://example.com/en
    • http://example.com/de
  • multihost multilang
    • http://en.example.com
    • http://de.example.com

hugo docs for me is the first variant. What are you looking for?

5

That, but in this format

multilang with default in subdir

* `http://example.com` 
* `http://example.com/en` ← redirect to default
* `http://example.com/de`
6

if your default content is in content/en

> tree content
├───de
│   └───posts
│       └───post-3
└───en
    └───posts
        └───post-3

> tree /f public
├───de
│   │   index.html
│   │
│   └───posts
│       │   index.html
├───en
│       index.html                      <- ALIAS
│
└───posts
    │   index.html

baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
defaultContentLanguage = 'en'
defaultContentLanguageInSubdir = false
disableDefaultLanguageRedirect = false

disableKinds = ['sitemap', 'rss', 'taxonomy', 'term']
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Languages
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[languages.en]
contentDir = 'content/en'
languageCode = 'en-US'
languageDirection = 'ltr'
languageName = 'English'
title = 'My New Hugo Site (en)'
weight = 1

[languages.de]
contentDir = 'content/de'
languageCode = 'de-DE'
languageDirection = 'ltr'
languageName = 'Deutsch'
title = 'My New Hugo Site (de)'
weight = 2

if your default content is in /contentand the others in subdirs is

change these

[languages.en]
contentDir = 'content'

├───content
│   ├───de
│   │   └───posts
│   │       └───post-3
│   └───posts
│       └───post-3