Configuring live copy for internationalization

This page describes how to configure i18n for your live copy site.

In this example, we make a live copy of the Magnolia Travel demo. The master is in English and German. We want the live copy to be in German only.

Create a live copy of your master site.
Go to your master site definition in the Resource Files app.
Create a copy of the master site definition.

In this example, we create a live copy of the travel-demo site. Therefore, we create a copy of the travel-demo site definition yaml file, travel.yaml.

Edit the live copy site definition as follows:

travel-demo/sites/travel0.yaml

domains:
  travel-demo:
    name: travel0-demo.magnolia-cms.com (1)
mappings:
  website:
    URIPrefix: ''
    handlePrefix: /travel0 (1)
    repository: website
templates:
  class: info.magnolia.module.site.templates.ReferencingPrototypeTemplateSettings
  prototypeId: travel-demo:pages/prototype
  availability:
    templates:
      home:
        id: travel-demo:pages/home
      standard:
        id: travel-demo:pages/standard
      searchResultPage:
        id: travel-demo:pages/searchResultPage
      pur:
        id: travel-demo:pages/pur
    enableAllWithRenderType:
      freemarker: freemarker
      spa: spa
theme:
  name: travel-demo-theme
i18n:
  class: info.magnolia.cms.i18n.IetfI18nContentSupport
  enabled: true
  fallbackLocale: de (2)
  locales: (3)
    de:
      enabled: true
      languageTag: de

1	Update the domain and mappings to match the live copy name.
2	Change the fallback locale to `de` (German).
3	Delete the other locales and only leave `de`.

When the author now opens a live copy page, the language switcher does not appear at the bottom of the page and the content presented is the German version.

About locales

Locales are display languages on Magnolia instances. When you create a live copy of your page, the new page (live copy) adopts the same structure as the original (master). This means that the locales of the master site definition are used to define the structure of both the master and live copy pages. The fallbackLocale defines which language is used by default from the available locales and which content is served if the content is not available for the current locale.

You can read the Language configuration page for information about defining available locales, and the Internationalization page for more information about translated user interface texts (see examples in the table below).

Master	Live copy
title = Hello world	title = Hello world
title_de = Hallo Welt	title_de = Hallo Welt

Master

Live copy

title = Hello world

title_de = Hallo Welt

Defining fallbackLocale does not affect the structure of the live copy or the master pages. For example, defining this property as de is like stating that the content of the live copy page will be rendered in the German locale by default when first loaded.

Configuring live copy for internationalization

About locales

Location

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