Hi!
I've read many posts regarding this subject but none of them seems to present the current issue. You could see below the detailed configurations, versions etc.

The problem
The website has two languages (french and english) which are managed with Fa Lang a branch of Joomfish. I setup all the URL in the custom URLs panel. For indicating the language in the URL, we use a simple variable in the querystring (lang=fr or lang=en). For instance, I have URL such as "index.php?option=com_content&catid=8&id=1&lang=en&view=article&Itemid=101" that is converted to "appliance-repair". BUT, even if I switch language and the URL appear correctly in the right language, the page content always appears in french. If I disabled Joomsef, it works perfectly so I though something doesn't work between Joomsef and Fa Lang.

Components and versions

• Joomla 2.5.7
• Fa Lang 1.1.6 (basic) paid version
• Artio Joomsef 4.2.9 paid version

2 languages

• french (main)
• english

Plugins

• Content - ARTIO JoomSEF enabled
• System - ARTIO JoomSEF enabled
• System - ARTIO JoomSEF Google Analytics enabled
• Extension Install - ARTIO JoomSEF enabled
• System Language - ARTIO JoomSEF enabled

• System - Language Code enabled
• System - Language Filter disabled

• System - FaLang Database Driver enabled

Configuration of Joomsef
Mainly the basic ones. For language settings, I have:

• Yes
• Include in path
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• No
• French

Website : dev.service2000.ca
username : guest
password : First

Thank you for your help!

Hi,
Your configuration seems to be correct, but for some reason the "appliance-repair" URL doesn't have the en/ language code present. Is the URL automatically generated by JoomSEF or is it your custom SEF URL?

No, my client decided not to use the "en/" or "fr/" prefix for some reasons. He prefers to translate the url itself and not see the language.

As we are waiting for it to go in Prod, I will try simply adding the "en" or "fr" in the URL for now. Please, let me know if it is possible to use URL without the language prefix. If so, we will fix it next. Thank you for your help!

That's probably the problem, JoomSEF 4 doesn't support URLs without the language code. Default language is selected for URL that doesn't have a language code. So the only thing you can currently achieve with JoomSEF is to remove language code from your French URLs.

That would be great if this possibility could be added in the future. Thank you for taking the time to check.