How flexible is the multilingual feature

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I’m currently evaluating some CMS’s for a lean business website, and I like the lightweight approach of Hugo very much. However, offering the Web presence in German and English is crucial to me. I have skimmed through http://gohugo.io/tutorials/create-a-multilingual-site/ but still have two questions:

  1. Is is possible to redirect the user automatically to the domain of their language according to the Accepted-Language field in the HTTP request?
  2. Is it possible to have different language in sub-paths instead of sub-domains?

Thank you!

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  1. that is not a built-in feature in Hugo, but there are ways to do that client-side (JavaScript) or from the web-server (Apache?).
  2. Sure, just set your baseURL for each site to the sub-path.
baseurl = "http://acme.com/en/"
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I did a client side javascript once that do conditional redirects that replaces URL pathname for a Business Catalyst multilingual site. Don’t know if it can be of any use but here it is: https://gist.github.com/Molnfront/da1f0bd7a0264fa8f477

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See: Multilingual Site with two-pass build

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Woha, really nice! Can you complete the article? Also, it looks like that with this method, you’re obliged to have all contents in all languages… That’s not exactly my use case :frowning:

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No, you’re not obliged to have all contents for all languages. Each language site can have it’s own individual content

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Updated documentation on Multi-Language Hugo in one tree with two pass build and non-polling watcher

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Take a look at it now:

Multi-Language Hugo site

Treat each language as if it’s a blog of its own, unconcerned with other languages. Merge at build time. Branches such as layouts, themes, assets, etc. can be common to all

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