On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:16 +0000, Phil wrote: > Guys, > > I use the i18n framework of django to offer my site content in two > language: French and English. As the language preference is kept in a > cookie, all the URLs of my site are therefore language agnostic. All > is working fine. > > But, when the googlebots hits my site, they only hit the French- > translated content! > I checked the cached version of the site in google and all the pages > are in French. > > Has somebody already given some thoughts on this and found a solution, > or do I will have to change my URLs as to have to sets, one in English > and one in French (http://www.mysite.com/path/to/url/fr/ and > http://www.mysite.com/path/to/url/en/) or something equivalent ?
Do you have access to your web server's logs? If so, you might want to pull out all the Google bot hits and see if there's a pattern in the way they are pulling the URLs to see why they might be getting the French content. I don't know for sure what your problem might be, but there is one suspect: If Google's crawler is cookie-aware there is one bug in Django's i18n stuff that may be hitting you. Unfortunately, the "set language" link changes your i18n setting when it is requested via a GET request. This is bad: it has side-effects, so only a POST should trigger the change. The result of this bug is that anything crawling every link in the site will have their language changed just by issuing a GET on the "set language" link. In the very near future, I'm going to fix this bug -- it's ticket #3651, if you're interested. I'm going to have a "day of backwards-incompatible changes" later this week and this will be one of them. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
