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Published Jun. 30, 2025

How changing the site default language affects Web Contents' friendly URLs

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Daniel Couso

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Issue

  • There is a site (My Site) with two available languages: es-ES and en-US, where es-ES is the default language.
  • My Site's web contents have their title and friendly URL defined only for the default language (es-ES).
  • The locale.prepend.friendly.url.style property is set to 3, its default value.
  • There are some external links to many web contents and we want to change My Site's default language from es-ES to en-US.
  • How will this change affect navigation in relation to Web Contents' friendly URLs?

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.1+

Resolution

  • Impacts and points to be taken into account after the change:
    • Web contents already created will keep their default language, unless they are manually changed.
    • After the change, it will be required to reindex the web contents.
    • Having added the Web Content's friendly URL for en-US as content-web-1 and taking the following URLs to access as examples, the redirects will behave as follows: 
      es-ES: /web/my-site/-/contenido-web-1
en-US: /en/web/my-site/-/contenido-web-1
      • The friendly URL /web/my-site/-/content-web-1 will redirect to /web/my-site/-/content-web-1 if the language in use is en-US and to /es/web/my-site/-/content-web-1 if the language in use is es-ES.
      • The friendly URL /en/web/my-site/-/content-web-1 will redirect to /en/web/my-site/-/content-web-1 regardless of the language in use.

 

 

 

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