On Mar 26, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
Does anyone have experience setting cookies with Apache? Any gotchas
or tips that you could offer?
Wade, I used Apache cookies for setting language preferences on our
website. The user could change the language of the website, via a
cookie on his machine, by clicking a link. For example clicking the
link to /locale:pt_BR would set a cookie indicating the user's
preference for Brazilian Portuguese, then redirect back to a
Portuguese home page.
1. The RewriteRule looked for /locale: and a 5 character locale
string, set a cookie, and then redirected back to the root:
RewriteRule ^/locale:(.....) / [R=302,L,cookie=locale:
$1:.moregoodfoundation.org:525600]
2. Elsewhere in httpd.conf, I used SetEnvIf to set an environment
variable called "prefer-language" based on the language cookie:
SetEnvIf Cookie "locale=en_US" prefer-language=en
SetEnvIf Cookie "locale=pt_BR" prefer-language=pt
SetEnvIf Cookie "locale=es_ES" prefer-language=es
SetEnvIf Cookie "locale=it_IT" prefer-language=it
3. The document root was configured to allow multi-views:
<Directory "/usr/local/www">
Options MultiViews ...
...
4. In document root we created a home page for every language:
index.php.en
index.php.es
index.php.it
index.php.pt
The URL would always appear to be http://www.moregoodfoundation.org/,
but the language would change depending on the cookie.
The only gotcha I saw was that sometimes the domain of the cookie
wasn't what I expected and had to be tweaked.
We've since moved away from this model since we want each language
version of the site to be bookmarkable and indexable.
Richard
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