Configuring the Server to Serve Localized Content

End users can configure their browsers to send an accept-language header that describes their language preference for the content they are accessing. The server can be configured to serve content based on the accept-language header by enabling the Negotiate Client Language checkbox under Configuration > (Select Configuration) > Virtual Server >(Select Virtual Server) > Server Setting > General > Localization.

For example, if this option is enabled, and a client sends the Accept-language header with the value fr-CH,de, when requesting the following URL:

http://www.someplace.com/somepage.html

then your server searches for the file in the following order:

Search Order

1. The Accept-language list fr-CH,de.

   http://www.someplace.com/fr_ch/somepage.html

   http://www.someplace.com/somepage_fr_ch.html

   http://www.someplace.com/de/somepage.html

   http://www.someplace.com/somepage_de.html

2. Language codes without the country codes (fr in the case of fr-CH):

   http://www.someplace.com/fr/somepage.html

   http://www.someplace.com/somepage_fr.html

3. The DefaultLanguage, such as en, defined in the magnus.conf file.

   http://www.someplace.com/en/somepage.html

   http://www.someplace.com/somepage_en.html

4. If none of these are found, the server tries:

   http://www.someplace.com/somepage.html

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   Note –

   When naming localized files, keep in mind that country codes like CH and TW are converted to lower case and dashes (-) are converted to underscores (_).

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   Caution –

   Enabling the acceptlanguage setting has a performance penalty since the server has to check for content in every language specified in the accept-language according to the algorithm illustrated above.

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