You’ve been using the WPML setting that adds a query parameter at the end of a URL to select the language
and now you want to switch to the setting where the languages are in directories?
From this setting: Language name added as a parameter (https://www.example.com?lang=fr – French)
To this setting: Different languages in directories ((https://www.example.com/ – English, https://www.example.com/fr/ – French))
Then the below redirect rule is for you. It safely redirects all old URLs to the new ones, after you did the switch.
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Thanks for solution!
But this thing also will break the /wp-admin/ part, because it contains lang=* when you switch language.
working solution is
RewriteEngine On
# redirect from ?lang=nl to /nl/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \?lang=(..) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !wp-admin [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*\/)|^$ /%1/$1? [L,R=301]
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Hi Konstantin
You are right. Thanks for letting me know. I’ve updated the gist.
Have a good day!
Regards
Aleks