Problems with Localized Site Navigation

Question

I`ve got a multilingual site (DE/EN) with a Structures section (pages) and one Single for the homepage.

In general.php I set up my localized site as described in the docs for a multi-environment config. German at the top level; English from en/ subfolder:

'domain.dev' => array(
    'siteUrl' => array(
        'de' => 'http://domain.dev/',
        'en' => 'http://domain.dev/en/',
    ),
),  

Within my public html folder I copied .htaccess and index.php to en/ and added define('CRAFT_LOCALE', 'en'); to index.php

Navigating to domain.dev shows the german pages:

• Seite 1
• Seite 2
• Seite 3

Changing the URL manually to domain.dev/en/ shows their right translations

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3

and also their right links, e.g. http://domain.dev/en/page-1

BUT following the link to domain.dev/en/page-1 the german content shows up again and the navigation switches back to german.

{% set pages = craft.entries.section('pages').level(1) %}
<nav>
    <ul>
        {% for page in pages %}
            <li>{{ page.getLink() }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

Going to any other english page (e.g. domain.dev/en/page-2) doesn't show up the english content (a translatable field) at all but neither the german content. So I think there is something wrong with my localization setup. Any ideas? Thanks much!

---

UPDATE

I set up a new craft installation and also a Localized Site as described in the docs. When defining the site URLs this way everything works like a charm:

return array(
    'siteUrl' => array(
        'de' => 'http://craft.dev/',
        'en' => 'http://craft.dev/en/',
    ),
);

in combination with my multi-environment config it is not working.

return array(
    'craft.dev' => array(
        'siteUrl' => array(
            'de' => 'http://craft.dev/',
            'en' => 'http://craft.dev/en/',
        ),
    ),
);

So I think my config is missing something to transmit the locale the right way?

Is there another way to set up a localized site with multi-environment config?

Answer 1

A multi-environment config needs to have a * key. This might work:

return array(
  '*' => array(),
  'craft.dev' => array(
    'siteUrl' => array(
      'de' => 'http://craft.dev/',
       en' => 'http://craft.dev/en/',
    ),
  ),
);

Answer 2

You may want to specify the locale of your nav links... craft.locale is the current locale.

{% set pages = craft.entries.section('pages').locale(craft.locale).level(1) %}
<nav>
    <ul>
        {% for page in pages %}
            <li>{{ page.getLink() }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

There are many different ways to create language links, several of which are described in this thread...