Add string to URL via .htaccess and RewriteRule

[gsmforum]

Hello,

I want to add this string to every URL on my server: "?language=en" (without quotes).

for instance: when someone goes to www.mypage.com/page.php it should rewrite automagically the URL to www.mypage.com/page.php?language=en

I was doing fine with this .htaccess configuration, but suddentely stopped working:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ ?language=en [QSA,L]

Can someone help ?
Thanks !

[g1smd]

First off, are you using a package like Joomla, Zencart, Wordpress, or similar?

[gsmforum]

No, running just a vbulletin board, as that string will convert all posts into English language automatically.

[g1smd]

Your pattern ^$ can never match a request for example.com/page.php?<something>.

You would need

RewriteRule ^page\.php$ /page.php?lang=en [QSA,L]

[gsmforum]

Thank you, strangely it was working with the other pattern.

I would need a pattern like "*", because i have php files, html files and also directories (like www.myboard.com/my-forum-directory/section1 section2, etc)

Isn't there a string capable of doing it, add it to ALL URLs ?

[g1smd]

Yes, but by adding it to ALL URLs you'll add it to the URLs for all your images, your stylesheets, even to your robots.txt file.

You might want to reconsider what you actually need.

[jdMorgan]

Stop your code from looping and use a more-specific pattern, such as:

RewriteEngine on
#
# Rewrite to append "language=en" query string to .html, .htm, .php, or index
# files at any directory level, unless that query string is already present
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !([^&]+&)*language=en(&.*)?$
RewriteRule ^(([^/]/)*[^.]+\.(html?|php))?$ /$1?language=en [QSA,L]

Jim

[gsmforum]

Thank you Jim!
will try that!

Any way to add that code to exclude one directory only, such as website/dir/?

[jdMorgan]

Adding

RewriteCond $1 !^dir/

at the top would likely do nicely...

Jim