This page provides instructions to establish the foundational language settings for the site. Administrators must set the default language, add target languages, and configure URL path prefixes to support multilingual content.

Configuring the default site language

Prerequisites

• Users must have the Site Administrator role. For more information, visit Managing roles and permissions.

To set the default language for the site:

1. Access your site.
2. On the left navigation menu, click Configuration.
3. Select Regional and language.
4. Select Languages.
5. Navigate to the Default language dropdown menu and select the language to set as the default site language.
6. Click Save configuration.

After a successful save, the following occurs::

• A confirmation message opens to indicate that the default language changed successfully.
• The Default language section displays the newly selected default language.
• The Operations column is empty for the default language to indicate that users cannot delete the default language while it remains set as the default language of the site.

Adding a language to a site

Prerequisites

• Users must have the Site Administrator role. For more information, visit Managing roles and permissions.

To add a language to the site:

1. Access your site.
2. On the left navigation menu, click Configuration.
3. Select Regional and language.
4. Select Languages.
5. On the top navigation menu, click + Add language.
6. On the Add language page, select the language to add from the Language name list.
7. Click Add language.

After a successful addition, the following occurs: 

• A confirmation message opens to indicate that the selected language exists and is available for use.
• The newly added language displays in the list of configured site languages on the Languages page.

Configuring URL language detection

Prerequisites

• Users must have the Site Administrator role. For more information, visit Managing roles and permissions.

To configure language detection with URL path prefixes:

1. Access your site.
2. On the left navigation menu, click Configuration.
3. Select Regional and language.
4. Select Site Language URL Settings. 

The system displays the URL language detection configuration page.

6. Enter the language code or custom text to use as a path prefix for URL language detection.

   For example, the en path prefix for English.

   Important

   Leave this field empty for the selected fallback language. Changes to this value break existing URLs. Exercise caution in a production environment. For example, if you specify deutsch as the path prefix code for German, the system creates URLs such as example.com/deutsch/contact.

7. Click Save configuration.

After a successful save, the following occurs:

• A confirmation message opens to indicate that the configuration options are saved.
• The configured language path prefix applies immediately to enable URL-based language detection.
• The system supports only URL path prefix detection.
• Other detection methods, such as Domain, Session, or Browser, are not available.

Deleting a language from a site

Prerequisites

• Users must have the Site Administrator role. For more information, visit Managing roles and permissions.

Use the following steps to delete a language:

1. Access your site.
2. On the left navigation menu, click Configuration.
3. Select Regional and language.
4. Select Languages.
5. Find the language you want to remove.
6. In the Operations column, click the Delete link corresponding to the language.

7. Confirm the deletion.

   Important

   Deleting a language also removes all translations for that language.

After a successful deletion,the following occurs:

• A confirmation message opens to indicate that the language is deleted.

• The language no longer appears in the list of configured site languages.

Configuring site languages