Liferay shows different URL for different machines

Question

I am seeing different URLs being generated by Liferay 6.1 GA2 on different machines even when I enter the following same URL in the browser:

http://my.ip.0.202:8080/

Machine-1's browser generates:

http://my.ip.0.202:8080/en_GB/web/guest/home

Machine-2's browser generates:

http://my.ip.0.202:8080/web/guest/home

The configurations on both the machines like language settings, local settings, browser settings, control panel settings seems to be same.

Can anybody tell me the reason for this and how can I force both machine's browser to render the same URL like http://my.ip.0.202:8080/web/guest/home

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you checked the Liferay Wiki: Configure time zones and locale.

I have not tried, but according to one of my colleague:

There might be a localization mismatch with the two machines. Therefore, for one machine "en_GB" automatically gets attached to the URL.

The problem can be resolved by setting a property in portal-ext.properties

locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=0 (by default it is set to 1).

The following is directly from the portal.properties:

#
# Set this to 0 if the locale is not automatically prepended to a URL. This
# means that each URL could potentially point to many different languages.
# For example, the URL http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home could then be
# viewed by users in many different languages.
#
# Set this to 1 if the locale is automatically prepended to a URL when the
# requested locale is not the default locale. This means that each URL
# points to just one language. For example, the URL
# http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home would point to the default language.
# The URL http://localhost:8080/zh/web/guest/home and
# http://localhost:8080/zh_CN/web/guest/home would both point to the Chinese
# language.
#
# In cases where the prepended locale is "zh" and not complete locale
# "zh_CN", then the full locale returned will be based on the order in which
# the locales appear in the property "locales". If "zh_CN" appears before
# "zh_TW", then "zh" will be a short hand for "zh_TW".
#
# The default language is set in system.properties with the properties
# "user.country" and "user.language".
#
# Set this to 2 if the locale is automatically prepended to every URL. This
# means that each URL points to just one language.
#
# Note that each language requires an entry in the property "locales" and a
# servlet mapping in web.xml for the I18n Servlet.
#
locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=1

Hope this helps.