Set default language for domain

Question

I have one site with 2 domains one example.de and one example.com its a multilanguage site, so i have urls like this example.de/de/content and example.de/en/content etc, and same on com domain.

Default language is de for this two domains, but for example.com i need english to be default language.

i thought i can change it in settings.php with $conf['language_default'] like this:

$conf['language_default'] = (object) array(
  'language' => 'en', 'name' => 'English', 'native' => 'English',
  'direction' => 0, 'enabled' => 1, 'plurals' => 0, 'formula' => '',
  'domain' => 'www.example.com', 'prefix' => '', 'weight' => 0, 'javascript' => ''
);

its working but for both domains... . also i managed to redirect users to en on example.com (my home page is a node with nid 89)

function MYMODULE_node_view($node) {

        if ($node->nid == 89) {
            if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'www.example.com') {
             header('Location: http://www.example.com/en');
            }
        }

    }

but its not an option

Is there any solution to change default language for my example.com domain?

Answer 1

Though I'm surprised if there's not an option in the user interface, according to language_default, it appears you could set the default language as a $conf variable in the shared settings.php file.

Something like

settings.php:

switch($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']){

  case 'www.example.com':

    $conf['language_default'] = (object) array(
      'language' => 'en', 'name' => 'English', 'native' => 'English',
      'direction' => 0, 'enabled' => 1, 'plurals' => 0, 'formula' => '',
      'domain' => 'www.example.com', 'prefix' => '', 'weight' => 0, 'javascript' => ''
    );

    // Example per-domain cache prefix if using memcache
    $conf['memcache_key_prefix'] = 'en_';

  break;
  case 'www.example.de':

    $conf['language_default'] = (object) array(
      'language' => 'de', 'name' => 'German', 'native' => 'German',
      'direction' => 0, 'enabled' => 1, 'plurals' => 0, 'formula' => '',
      'domain' => 'www.example.de', 'prefix' => '', 'weight' => 0, 'javascript' => ''
    );

    // Ensures cache varies by domain
    $conf['memcache_key_prefix'] = 'de_';

  break;

}

Update: Added example memcache cache key prefix setting - to ensure cache varies per domain, if required.

Answer 2

Why do you want to change the default language? It would be enough to change current language depending on the domain. I think the best way is, to alter the current language of all types with the function: hook_url_language_init. This would be an code example:

function custom_api_language_init() {
  // Current path
  $url = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
  $domains = array('www.example.com' => 'en');

  // Global language object and get languages
  global $language;
  $languages = language_list();


  if (isset($domains[$url])) {

    $langcode = $domains[$url]

    $new_language         = $languages[$langcode];
    $new_language->domain = $url;

    // Set url options
    $options['language'] = $new_language;
    $types = language_types();

    // Set all language types and language domains
    foreach ($types as $type) {
      $GLOBALS[$type] = $new_language;
      $GLOBALS[$type]->domain = $new_language->domain;
    }
  }
}

Here you find a similar thread: How to set multiple domains for one language

Answer 3

I wrote it in a comment, but I believe it may be the correct way to do it, so I post it as an answer. In

/admin/config/regional/language/configure

you can set both User interface text language and Content language based on URL, session, user preference, browser language and default language.

Answer 4

in your template.php use the following code. :

function THEME_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
   global $language;
   if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'www.example.com' && $language->language != 'de') {
       header('Location: http://www.example.com/en');
   }
}