What is the least complicated way to translate parts of an existing and quite big site (few hundreds of thousands nodes), without affecting the page aliases?
I am aware of different translation systems and would prefer to use Entity translation. Unfortunately, it seems that both Entity Translation and Content translation don't make it possible to retain a functioning URL structure. E. g. I have this now:
- Original text's URL (the same pattern should work after translation): example.com/texto-original
After the translation work, it should have this structure:
- Original text's URL (the same pattern should work after translation): example.com/texto-original
- Translated text (has language parameter in the URL): example.com/en/translated-text
What I want to achieve:
There's a default language (Spanish in this example) that was used for all of the content so far. Those pages don't have language prefix in the URL (e. g. "es/") at the moment. It should stay that way.
Site should always display everything in Spanish, unless a visitor opens an URL with "en/" prefix.
On the pages that are translated, there should be a link "English", "View this page in English" or something similar.
When a visitor opens such page in English, there should also be a link "Español". If a visitor is on the English page - the interface, blocks and other entities (if translated) should be in English as well.
Sorry if I haven't explained well what I want to achieve, I'll try to explain better if something is not clear.
Thank you for any ideas.
