HOW TO: I18N Plugin + Fancy URLs + Lighttpd + Multilingual

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I installed I18N plugin v2.5.1 on a clean installation of GetSimple 3.0 on top of lighttpd. I enabled mod_rewrite and enabled the 10-getsimple.conf.

Instructions

For a language selector on top of every page
OPEN theme/theme-name/header.php
ADD inside wrapper div

Code:

<!-- language selection -->
                <div class="language-selector">
                <a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(return_i18n_setlang_url('gr')); ?>">Greek</a> | <a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(return_i18n_setlang_url('en')); ?>">English</a><br/>
                </div>

FIND

Code:

echo find_url('index',null);

REPLACE WITH

Code:

echo (function_exists('find_i18n_url') ? find_i18n_url('index',null) : find_url('index',null));

OPEN plugins/i18n_base/frontend.class.php
FIND

Code:

public static function getURL($slug, $slugparent, $language=null, $type='full') {
    global $url, $parent, $PERMALINK, $PERMALINK_ORIG;

AFTER, ADD

Code:

$PERMALINK_ORIG = isset($PERMALINK_ORIG) ? $PERMALINK_ORIG : $PERMALINK;

FIND inside function getFancyLanguageUrl

Code:

global $SITEURL, $PERMALINK_ORIG, $language;

REPLACE WITH

Code:

global $SITEURL, $PERMALINK, $PERMALINK_ORIG, $language;
    $PERMALINK_ORIG = isset($PERMALINK_ORIG) ? $PERMALINK_ORIG : $PERMALINK;

OPEN admin/edit.php
FIND

Code:

echo '<a href="', find_url($url, $parent) ,'" target="_blank" accesskey="', find_accesskey(i18n_r('VIEW')), '" >', i18n_r('VIEW'), ' </a>';

REPLACE WITH

Code:

if(strpos($url, '_') !== false){
                    $language = explode('_', $url);
                    $language = $language[count($language)-1];
                    if(strlen($language) == 2){
                        $url2 = substr($url, 0, -3);
                    }
                }
                $language = ($language) ? $language : return_i18n_default_language();
                echo '<a href="', (function_exists('find_i18n_url') ? find_i18n_url($url2, $parent, $language) : find_url($url2, $parent)) ,'" target="_blank" accesskey="', find_accesskey(i18n_r('VIEW')), '" >', i18n_r('VIEW'), ' </a>';

Finally, enable mod_rewrite in lighttpd.conf and enable the usage of the following conf.

10-getsimple.conf

Code:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|www\.)example\.com$" {

    # Deny access to the backups, data and plugins directories...
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/gs/(backups|data|plugins)/" {
        # ...except the uploads, thumbs and every css, js, or images directory inside plugins
        $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/gs/(data/(uploads|thumbs)|plugins/(.*?/)(css|js|images))/?" {
            url.access-deny = ("")
        }
    }

    # Disable directory listing
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/gs($|/)" {
        dir-listing.activate = "disable"
    }

    
    # Use mod_rewrite for fancy URLS
    url.rewrite-if-not-file = (
        "^/gs/(en|gr)/(.*?/)?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$" => "/gs/index.php?id=$3&lang=$1",
        "^/gs/(en|gr)/?$" => "/gs/index.php?lang=$1",
    )
    

    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/gs/?$" {
        url.redirect = (
            # Optional
            "/" => "http://www.example.com/gs/en/"
        )
    }
}

NOTE: If your GetSimple installation directory is / instead of /gs/ that I used in this example, simply search and replace all instances of /gs (without trailing slash)
NOTE 2: In this example I have only used, two languages, English and Greek. You can add as many as you want, as long as their identifier is 2 characters long and you make the appropriate changes to theme/theme-name/header.php and 10-getsimple.conf.

Have fun!!