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2. Before you start
- Decide the languages and the default one. The default site language is where visitors land when Joomla cannot tell what they prefer.
- Decide the URL codes now. They become part of every URL. Short codes (
en,el,de) are the norm. Changing them later means redirecting every page. - Work on a copy for existing sites. Turning on the Language Filter changes the URLs of an existing site, so test on a staging copy and take a backup first.
- Enable SEF URLs and URL Rewriting in System → Global Configuration so URLs look like
/el/arxikiinstead ofindex.php/el/arxiki.
Just experimenting? On a fresh, empty installation, the Sample Data panel on the Home Dashboard offers Multilingual Sample Data. Once the languages are installed, it builds a working multilingual demo for you. Do not run it on a site with real content.
