Dynamically change default locale?

[mzdr]

Hey there,

I was wondering if its possible to dynamic set the default locale? Because I am running a multi-domain multi-site setup with the same Statamic instance. I have 2 locales, en and de. For .com the default locale (en) is just fine, but for .de everything is "hidden" under .de/de. Is it possible to say that for .de I want de to be the default locale so that I have everything in german under .de?

[jasonvarga]

Can you show your config/statamic/sites.php file?

I have a feeling you have a /de subdirectory in your de site's url. You can just use the domain and not include the subdirectory.

[mzdr]

Of course. This is the content of config/statamic/sites.php:

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Sites
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Each site should have root URL that is either relative or absolute. Sites
    | are typically used for localization (eg. English/French) but may also
    | be used for related content (eg. different franchise locations).
    |
    */

    'sites' => [

        'default' => [
            'name' => 'English',
            'locale' => 'en_US',
            'url' => '/',
        ],

        'fr' => [
            'name' => 'Français',
            'locale' => 'fr_FR',
            'url' => '/fr',
        ],

        'de' => [
            'name' => 'Deutsch',
            'locale' => 'de_DE',
            'url' => '/de',
        ],

    ],
];

[jasonvarga]

Yeah, all the urls are relative. You're using different domains, right? You should put them in there.

    'sites' => [

        'default' => [
            'name' => 'English',
            'locale' => 'en_US',
-            'url' => '/',
+            'url' => 'http://defaultdomain.com/'
        ],

        'fr' => [
            'name' => 'Français',
            'locale' => 'fr_FR',
-            'url' => '/fr',
+            'url' => 'http://defaultdomain.com/fr/'
        ],

        'de' => [
            'name' => 'Deutsch',
            'locale' => 'de_DE',
-            'url' => '/de',
+            'url' => 'http://germandomain.de/'
        ],

    ],

In this example, you the French site is a subdirectory of the default domain. You could of course just make that a separate domain too.

If you don't want to hardcode them, you can use environment variables.

'url' => env('DEFAULT_APP_URL'),
'url' => env('DEFAULT_APP_URL').'/fr/',
'url' => env('GERMAN_APP_URL'),

https://statamic.dev/multi-site#url

[mzdr]

Awesome, thanks @jasonvarga. <3