If Apache is handling your static content, and you are simply using
Tomcat
to serve dynamic content, then you can use the request.getLocale()
method
to find out what language the visitors browser is suggesting. For
example:
String lang = request.getLocale().getLanguage();
if ( "es".equals(lang) ) {
....
}
else {
...
}
How to get Tomcat to mimic Apache HTTPD's approach of serving static
HTML
pages in the right language, I am not sure. The only approach I can
think
of is to group all language content together in the same sub folder, for
example:
/en/...
/es/...
/fr/...
and then using relative paths. Using the above approach (ignoring
language
variations), you could do:
String lang = request.getLocale().getLanguage();
ServletContext context = getServletConfig().getServletContext();
if ( (new File(context.getRealPath("/" + lang)).exists() ) {
response.sendRedirect("/" + lang);
}
else {
response.sendRedirect("/en/");
}
This assumes index.jsp within the language folder.
As a commentary on my part: if you expect to support more than European
languages, then it is worthwhile standardising on UTF-8 for content
encoding.
On 7-May-2009, at 15:35, Andrew Davidson wrote:
Hi
I do you know how I can build a multi lingual website? My main
website is in
English. I want to have a landing page in Spanish that describes my
website
and invites the user to click through the English version of the web
site.
Any idea how I set this up using Tomcat? The bulk of our web site is
static
html pages.
Some one sent me a link about how to do this using the Apache web
server so
that it check the Accept-Language of the http header
http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/technicalpublications/articles/apache.htm
l
I have not been able to find a similar discussion for how to configure
Tomcat to get similar behavior
Do I have to replace index.html with a servlet that checks the value
of
Accept-Language and generates a redirect to something like
index.html.en or
index.html.en
Thanks
Andy
p.s. I am using Tomcat 5.5.x
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