FAQ

[Marcin Kalak]

Here is list of frequently asked questions. You will find answers below.

What is required for this mod to work?
After translation I get blank page - what is wrong?
After translation all text disappear - what is wrong?
I have SEO translation links on, I use vBSEO and main page is not translating - what is wrong?
What to do, to have translations links good for SEO consensus?
How do you get back to default language after you click a flag?
I have warnings in safe mode - what to do?
How does multi language support is working?
How to translate pages outside forum directory?
How to check am I blocked by my translation provider?
I get the e-mail message about MySQL server gone away issue. What is wrong?
The URL includes the accented. Is it indexed by google?
How to configure support for other translation APIs?
How reach your translation limits slower and limit your expenses with paid translations
Untranslated text
Partial translation
What to do to have URL's translated under the flags?
How to configure .htaccess
Errors after update vBulletin
Flags are not displayed on mobile style

[Marcin Kalak]

- You must install it and configure it appropriately (please read parameters descriptions carefully)
- You must have installed CURL in your php. Most servers already have it. Just install this mod and if it is not working then ask your server stuff to install CURL. In meantime you can disable mod or remove flags so users will not be affected. If you get blank page for translation pages (it will not affect your normal pages) it means that you don't have CURL installed - just install it
- You must have installed ICONV in your php. Most servers already have it. If not an error will occur or blank page for translations.

[Marcin Kalak]

Just read answer for previous question

Also you can check this vBulletin documentation about blank pages: vBulletin Manual
Still - first just make sure that you have everything what is needed for vBET.

[Marcin Kalak]

In such case you have 3 possibilities:

1. You didn't fallow installation instructions. You MUST configure Forum language option. Just configure mod
2. You set wrong Google Translation API key - set it to appropriate value or remove it (not advised - just set it appropriately)
3. For some reason you was blocked by Google

The last one needs some clarification - how you can tell that you was blocked. Here is simple manual how to do that:
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...html#post15132

[Marcin Kalak]

First, make sure that your .htaccess rules are OK - especially for forums with subdirectory in URL.

[Marcin Kalak]

You have to set appropriate option in Admin CP and change/create .htaccess file


- If you don't have .htaccess file then use the one from do-not-upload directory in mod package - just upload it to your forum directory
- If you have .htaccess file, then add one of these two rules (if you are using vB 'Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs' then put those rules JUST BEFORE vB rules):



- SHORT RULES
Faster and more efficient but can be used only if you are NOT using links with 2-signs part i.e: yourforum.com/XY/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(js|hv)
RewriteRule ^/?(..|zh-CN|zh-TW)/archive/index.php/(.*)?$ archive/index.php?/$2&language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(js|hv)
RewriteRule ^/?(..|zh-CN|zh-TW)/$ index.php?language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(js|hv)
RewriteRule ^/?(..|zh-CN|zh-TW)/(.*)?$ $2?language=$1 [L,QSA]

- LONG RULES
Can by used always

RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/archive/index.php/(.*)?$ archive/index.php?/$2&language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/$ index.php?language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/(.*)?$ $2?language=$1 [L,QSA]

[Marcin Kalak]

If you have set tracking option on, then to go back to your default language you must just click flag for your default language

[Marcin Kalak]

Just turn off save mode - it is DEPRECATED in php and not supported in future versions. See here for details:
PHP: Security and Safe Mode - Manual

[Marcin Kalak]

First of all mod supports user default language. It is set in registration form and can be changed in User CP. So if user has set his default language, then he does nothing... Just writes posts in his language, and vBET takes care about everything. In such case - when user has set default language it is assumed that whole post (including title) is written in his default language. It will be configurable soon, but at his moment there is simple assumption: if user has set default language and it is different than forum default language, then each his message is in language which he choose as his default.

You can also create multi language messages, where only parts of message are in different languages. This is very easy - everything what you need to do it put text written in different language inside of lang BBCode. It takes one parameter which is the language code. I.e. if you want to write something in Polish, then BBCode looks like this lang=pl.
See whole example (spaces in BBCode added to avoid evaluation):
[ lang=pl]Przykład tekstu po polsku[ /lang]

This example (without spaces in BBCode) will give you such result:

Example of text in Polish

There is also one more BBCode which works exactly as lang BBCode, but it's reserved for posts titles only. It is langtitle BBCode - it is used by vBET to automatically mark message of user which set theirs default language other than forum default language. It shouldn't be used manually, and if you want to use it such way, then remember to put whole message inside of lang BBCode using same language code as parameter in booth BBCodes (otherwise some parts of translated RSS channels can be not translated appropriately, but posts will be shown appropriately).

There is really one more BBCode, but it is not for translation - in fact it is to keep text not translated. If you want some text i post to be not translated, just simple out it inside of notranslate BBCode. It can be useful in case of some terms, or citation of some poems etc.

For example this text will never be translated. You can check it by clicking some translation flag - you will see this part will stay in original

[Marcin Kalak]

If your forum is in subdirectory and you have pages outside it, which are handled by vBulletin, then vBET will support translation for those pages

All you have to do is set appropriate rules in .htaccess file in forum PARENT directory:

RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/$ index.php?language=$1&vbet_outside=true [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|cy|yi)/(.*)?$ $2?language=$1&vbet_outside=true [L,QSA]

And for each subdirectory in your domain which should be supported by vBET (without forum directory itself) add this rule in .htaccess file inside of supported subdirectory:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbet_outside=true
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?vbet_outside=true [L,QSA]

So if forum PARENT directory also have to be supported it need all those rules.

If you also want to keep translation tracking for those you have to:

1. Turn on URL tracking outside forum directory in options in Admin CP
2. Make sure that links to those pages are ABSOLUTE (so starts from http)

Also make sure that there is base tag in generated HTML output for pages outside forum directory. If not then edit template which generates those pages and add code below in any place between <head> and </head>:

<vb:if condition="!$_REQUEST['language']"><base href="{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/" /></vb:if>