mod_rewrite to set language variable to subdir name

Dear all,

hopefully one of you could help me with the following problem. Just to mention it, I'm not a programmer. The website is driven by a nuke-system with a lot of different modules, but only a few have been rewritten with mod_rewrite upon today. However, the site is multilingual, and so the URL should always show the selected language as a subdirectory name.

O.k. here is the problem:

Original URL like [mydomain.com...]
should be [mydomain.com...]

The subdir /english should remain, as long as the user changes the language.

I tried the following from .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /test

#Index
RewriteRule ^index.html index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} ^lang=(.+)$
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/index.html [mydomain.com...]

But that hasn't brought the result I'm looking for.

So I tried instead of RewriteCond and RewriteRule from above the following line:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]*)/index.html index.php?newlang=$1

What works for the index.html but not for all of the other modules and even not for the CSS file.

Well, it might also be a problem of the php programming. Just because I'm not sure about this, here are the line's from my header.php file:

ob_start();

function replace_for_mod_rewrite(&$s)
{
$urlin = array(
"'(?<!/)index.php'",
"'(?<!/)index.php\?newlang=([a-z]*)'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Home'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Terms_Of_Use'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Disclaimer'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Privacy_Policy'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Solutions'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Solutions&op=([a-z]*)'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Subscribe'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Contact'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Recommend_Us'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Shopping'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=FAQ'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=FAQ&file=index'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=FAQ&myfaq=([a-zA-Z0-9+]*)&id_cat=([0-9]*)&categories=([a-zA-Z0-9+]*)'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Surveys'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Surveys&pollID=([a-zA-Z0-9]*)'",
"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Surveys&op=results&pollID=([a-zA-Z0-9]*)'",
);

$urlout = array(
"index.html",
"\\1\\index.html",
"\\1\\home.html",
"terms-of-use.html",
"disclaimer.html",
"privacy-policy.html",
"products-and-services.html",
"products-and-services-\\1.html",
"subscribe.html",
"contact.html",
"recommend-us.html",
"shop.html",
"faq.html",
"faq.html",
"faq-\\1-\\2-\\3",
"surveys.html",
"survey\\1.html",
"survey\\1results.html"
);

$s = preg_replace($urlin, $urlout, $s);
return $s;
}

Anyway I have read lot's of manuals and postings now, but didn't found any solution, but I guess it's just a simple problem.

If someone has tips for me what to do, I would be very glad. Thanks a lot.

bibu

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