Drupal 8 always editing a translation, never the original

Question

I have a website with 4 languages, while English is the default. Each language has its own directory (mydomain.com/contact, mydomain.com/jp/contact, etc.). I have the following languages:

• English
• Czech
• Japanese
• Russian

For the record, my language detection is configured with these priorities:

1. URL
2. Session
3. Selected Language
4. Browser

When I try to edit a translation of a content page (let's say Japanese), it works just fine, but when I try to open an edit page (mydomain.com/node/6/edit) of the orignal, english node, I'm always getting "Edit Basic Page Nobg Kontakty [Czech translation]", with the Czech content and can't access the edit page for the english original. What to do?

Answer 1

If you want to use English as default without URL prefix you have to disable

• Session
• Browser

in the language detection list, so that only URL and Selected Language (which can't be removed) is enabled.

Then configure in

• Selected Language

the site's default language (English).