Hi Florian,
I had same problem migrating from Struts1 to Struts7
I solved it with an Interceptor but also used namespace (what you do not want)
Do you want me to post my solution?
Kind regards Ute
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Am 14.01.26 um 13:08 schrieb Florian Schlittgen
> Great, thanks for your quick reply.
> One comment:
> > 3. Outbound redirect handling - either via Apache Header edit
> > directive, or a custom result type that prepends the locale to
> > Location headers.
> With the introduction of a custom result type, you rely on the Apache
> rewriting. If you want to test the application locally without reverse
> proxy, the redirect will not work. So I rather would go for Apache
> Header edit directive to rewrite the Location header to only loosely
> couple Apache to the Struts application.
>
> Cheers
> Florian
>
>
> On 1/14/26 11:47 AM, Lukasz Lenart wrote:
> > There is no direct support for such a approach in the framework, if
> > you use Apache HTTP you can add reverse proxy with mod_rewrite plus a
> > small interceptor, eg.
> >
> > 1. Apache mod_rewrite (inbound):
> >
> >
> >
> > RewriteEngine On
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-z]{2})(/.*)?$
> > RewriteRule ^/([a-z]{2})(/.*)?$ $2 [E=STRUTS_LOCALE:$1,PT]
> > RequestHeader set X-Struts-Locale "%{STRUTS_LOCALE}e"
> > env=STRUTS_LOCALE
> >
> > 2. Simple interceptor to read the header:
> >
> > public class UrlLocaleInterceptor extends AbstractInterceptor {
> >
> >
> > @Override
> >
> >
> >
> > public String
> > intercept(ActionInvocation invocation) throws Exception {
> >
> >
> > HttpServletRequest request =
> > ServletActionContext.getRequest();
> >
> >
> > String locale = request.getHeader("X-Struts-Locale");
> >
> >
> > if
> > (locale != null) {
> >
> >
> >
> > ActionContext.getContext().withLocale(LocaleUtils.toLocale(locale));
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > return
> > invocation.invoke();
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> > 3. Outbound redirect handling - either via Apache Header edit
> > directive, or a custom result type that prepends the locale to
> > Location headers.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Łukasz
> >
> > śr., 14 sty 2026 o 10:51 Florian Schlittgen <[email protected]>
> > napisał(a):
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> in my Struts2 application, I want the user's current language to be part
> >> of the URL. For example:
> >>
> >> http://localhost:8080/myApp/en/my/namespace/myAction.action (English)
> >> http://localhost:8080/myApp/de/my/namespace/myAction.action (German)
> >>
> >> Is there a built-in feature in Struts to implement this?
> >> I am using the convention plugin and the application contains a lot of
> >> actions and JSP pages, therefore I looking for way to implement this
> >> without changing existing namespaces or JSP pages.
> >> Anyone who have done this before or have any advice on this?
> >>
> >> Instead of implementing it with Struts, I could use my reverse proxy
> >> (Apache HTTP) to rewrite requests (strip out the language part from the
> >> url and turn it into a request parameter). And for the reverse
> >> direction, redirects coming from Struts backend must also be rewritten
> >> (transform the 'Location' response header into the URL form from above).
> >> Any thoughts or advice on this?
> >>
> >> Which one would be the better approach?
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >> Florian
> >>
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