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avatar emma113140
emma113140
9 Jan 2020

Steps to reproduce the issue

Version joomla: 3.9.11
Adress: https://www.memozor.com

I have a Joomla Multilingual site correctly configured.
I followed one by one all the recommendations for a multilingual joomla site.

This is my configuration:

  • I use the native joomla for the multilingual, and I don't use any external plugin
  • The default language is english
  • I have only one module language switcher. This module is displayed on all the pages and the language parameter is configured to "all languages"
  • The system plugin filter lang is configured like this: Remove the language code from the URL: YES
  • My url look like:
    https://www.memozor.com/memory-games
    https://www.memozor.com/fr/jeux-de-memory

Expected result

But I have only ONE PROBLEM (BUG?) that I had not noticed until now!
When I'm on a page of the site in the language which is not the default one (for example https://www.memozor.com/fr/jeux-de-memory) the link toward the associated page in the language selector has a prefix /en/ in the url (https://www.memozor.com/en/memory-games) while English is the default language.
It took me a long time to notice this problem because when I click on the english flag, joomla automatically redirects this url to the correct url (https://www.memozor.com/memory-games). So the problem is invisible for a simple user, but not for googlebot!

Additional comments

The redirections are not a good practice SEO. So I would like to correct this problem because I don't want to be penalized in terms of SEO.

avatar emma113140 emma113140 - open - 9 Jan 2020
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - labeled - 9 Jan 2020
avatar HLeithner
HLeithner - comment - 10 Jan 2020

We need this redirect to set the new language for the current user session.

You can add the /en/ to the English version then you don't have an additional redirect.

I'm closing this because there is nothing we can't do about this, feel free to comment or reopen it.

avatar HLeithner HLeithner - close - 10 Jan 2020
avatar HLeithner HLeithner - change - 10 Jan 2020
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-01-10 09:28:02
Closed_By HLeithner
avatar infograf768
infograf768 - comment - 10 Jan 2020

@emma113140
Please do not post all over the place.
I have replied to you both in the French Forum and in https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=711&t=977013#p3591690

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