WPML
Status
Resolved
Resolved in
3.7.0

Overview of the issue

Since WPML 3.6.3 some users are experiencing incorrect browser redirections when the Language URL format is configured on WPML -> Languages page with the following settings:

  • Different languages in directories
  • Use directory for default language => enabled

Workaround

This problem will be addressed in the next WPML version.

In the meantime we have a patch you can apply to the class-wpml-canonicals-hooks.php file, found in the ../wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/canonicals/ folder.

Replace the following whole block of code, around line 34.:

public function redirect_pages_from_root_to_default_lang_dir() {
	if ( is_page() ) {
		$current_path   = wpml_parse_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH );
		$canonical_url  = get_permalink( get_queried_object_id() );
		$canonical_path = wpml_parse_url( $canonical_url, PHP_URL_PATH );
		$canonical_path = $this->get_paginated_canonical_path( $canonical_path );

		if ( $current_path !== $canonical_path ) {
			$current_query = wpml_parse_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_QUERY );
			parse_str( $current_query, $current_query_array );
			$canonical_url = add_query_arg( $current_query_array, $canonical_url );
			$this->sitepress->get_wp_api()->wp_safe_redirect( $canonical_url, 301 );
		}
	}
}

With:

public function redirect_pages_from_root_to_default_lang_dir() {
    global $wpml_url_converter;
    if ( is_page() && ! WPML_Root_Page::is_current_request_root() ) {
        $lang = $this->sitepress->get_current_language();
        $current_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
        $abs_home    = $wpml_url_converter->get_abs_home();
        $install_subdir = wpml_parse_url( $abs_home, PHP_URL_PATH );
        $actual_uri  = preg_replace( '#^' . $install_subdir . '#', '', $current_uri );
        $actual_uri  = '/' . ltrim( $actual_uri, '/' );

        if ( 0 !== strpos( $actual_uri, '/' . $lang . '/' ) ) {
            $canonical_uri = trailingslashit( $install_subdir ) . $lang . $actual_uri;
            $canonical_uri = user_trailingslashit( $canonical_uri );
            $this->sitepress->get_wp_api()->wp_safe_redirect( $canonical_uri, 301 );
        }
    }
}

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