How to use a language identifier at the start of url

Question

I'm using: http://localhost/en/index.php to indetify the current sites language.

But, I'm searching a way to do like this : http://en.localhost/index.php

Maybe some webserver configurations or frameworks would help.

After all my research I wasn't able to find a solution. Thank you and have a nice day.

It's depend on you how to use create sub domain or add extra parameter in url — Keval Rathi, Sep 04 '15 at 11:33
This is too broad to answer, but you have to set DNS Wildcard on your domain first, and then use URL Rewriting to achieve that. — Ahmad, Sep 04 '15 at 11:37
Sorry, I got no idea from where to start with. That's why it's broad, If I had some tips I wasn't asking here and researching instead. I never asked to write a tutorial for me, just some tip that could support my research. Thank you. — Vladimir, Sep 04 '15 at 11:41
@Heru-Luin y it should be, thank you ! I got everything I needed. — Vladimir, Sep 04 '15 at 11:42
@Vladimir We are not here to help you with your research or "get you started". — Epodax, Sep 04 '15 at 11:46
@Vladimir To help people who do their research and have actual coding problems. — Epodax, Sep 05 '15 at 16:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '15 at 11:37

There are a lot of options you can do if you use a wildcard domain configuration. Say you have this following entry in the DNS:

*.example.com    127.0.0.1
example.com      127.0.0.1

This will redirect all the domains and sub-domains under example.com to one single place. Such thing can be configured in Apache too.

ServerName   example.com
ServerAlias  *.example.com

And they all go to the same location. In PHP, you can use:

$lang = str_replace(".example.com", "", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);

And based on the variable in the $lang you can make it. If you wanna do it for localhost, you need to set your Apache directive this way:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin me@localhost.com
    DocumentRoot "C:/www"
    ServerName localhost
    ServerAlias *.localhost
    <Directory "C:/www">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Thank you for helping me out, and principally for not hashing about my ignorance. If I could I'd give you way more points for this. — Vladimir, Sep 04 '15 at 12:07
@Vladimir All the best. Glad that I could help. Once I was also like this. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, Sep 04 '15 at 12:10

How to use a language identifier at the start of url

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