Setting Languages.AlwaysStripLanguage to false via code for specific sites

Question

I need to set Languages.AlwaysStripLanguage to false via code for specific sites, How to achieve this via extending Language Strip Pipeline and set the value to false.

Answer 1

You can achieve the mentioned functionality by following below steps

1. Extend the pipeline processor that manages language stripping by creating a custom processor.

using Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest;
using Sitecore.Sites;

namespace YourNamespace
{
    public class CustomLanguageStripProcessor : HttpRequestProcessor
    {
        public override void Process(HttpRequestArgs args)
        {
            // Check if Site Context is null
            if (Sitecore.Context.Site == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            // Retrieve the current site
            SiteContext siteContext = Sitecore.Context.Site;

            // Check if the current site matches your specific conditions
            if (siteContext.Name.Equals("yourSiteName", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                // Set AlwaysStripLanguage to false
                siteContext.Properties["Languages.AlwaysStripLanguage"] = "false";
            }
        }
    }
}

2. Add your custom processor to the appropriate pipeline in the App_Config folder by creating a patch file.

    <configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
     <sitecore>
        <pipelines>
          <httpRequestBegin>
            <processor type="YourNamespace.CustomLanguageStripProcessor, YourAssemblyName" patch:before="processor[@type='Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest.LanguageResolver, Sitecore.Kernel']" />
          </httpRequestBegin>
        </pipelines>
      </sitecore>
    </configuration>
   

Try this and let me know if it works !!! Hope this helps !!!

Answer 2

Strip language is set inside the preprocessRequest pipeline which runs before the httpRequestBegin pipeline in which site context is set. Hence in order to obtain site context inside the custom processor created in the preprocessRequest pipeline using below code snippet.

using Sitecore.Pipelines.PreprocessRequest;
using Sitecore.Sites;
using Sitecore.Web;
using System.Linq;

public class CustomStripLanguage : StripLanguage
{
  public override void Process(PreprocessRequestArgs args)
  {
     var hostName = args.HttpContext.Request.Url.Host;
     SiteInfo site = SiteContextFactory.Sites
                .Where(s => s.RootPath != "" & s.HostName.Contains(hostName))
                .FirstOrDefault();
     if(site != null)
     {
        SiteContext contextSite =  SiteContextFactory.GetSiteContext(site.Name);
        // Based on the site context you can decide whether to strip language or not
        if(contextSite.Properties["StripLanguage"] == "false"){
           return;
        }
     }
     base.Process(args);
   }
}

Using above way, you should be successfully able to fetch site name inside preprocessRequest pipeline and decide whether the language should be stripped for the particular site through reading StripLanguage property on the site context .

You need to patch the custom processor created above as below.

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
     <pipelines>
       <preprocessRequest>
         <processor type="YourNamespace.CustomStripLanguage, YourAssemblyName" patch:instead="processor[@type='Sitecore.Pipelines.PreprocessRequest.StripLanguage, Sitecore.Kernel']" />
       </preprocessRequest>
     </pipelines>
   </sitecore>
 </configuration>

Hope this helps!!! Let me know in case you face any issues.