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Visualise a three step jump sporting event, with the first two steps perfect in place and the third step launching into air, never coming back and eventually a crash! That is what this question boils down to :)

STEP 1:WORKS serve /somepage?ln=xx when user navigates to /xx/somepage.

# if user inputs nice urls /xx/somepage to serve page /someapge?ln=xx RewriteRule ^([a-z][a-z])/(.*) /$2?ln=$1 [L]

STEP 2:WORKS go to the homepage when only language is given /xx/

# if language xx given but no page given? then redirect to its home /xx/home RewriteRule ^([a-z][a-z])/?$ /$1/home [R=301,L]

STEP 3:CRASH 

# if user inputs /somepage then redirect to default english: /en/somepage # if user inputs /somepage?ln=xx redirect to nice url /xx/somepage RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/../ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en/$1 [R=301,L]

The third rule is where we are stuck... PS: The redirection should work both for extensionless files somepage?ln=xx as well as files with extension somepage.abc?ln=xx where the extension can be any 2 or 3 char-word, or if easier, checked manually with the following extensions i use [.php .uu .u3c .vls]

Thanks a Thousand!

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This does work (tested):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/../ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en$1 [R=301,L]

Apache Mod_Rewrite documentation, Rewrite Guide, and Advanced Rewrite Guide.

Edit:
Tested the above (it's the same as it was before); works on my Apache 2.2 server.

Edit 2:
Should be no problem, just need something like this:

# If just the language is specified (ie example.com/en) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/..$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ # If no language subfolder, default to 'en' RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/../ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en$1 [R=301] # If no page specified, default to home. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/../.+ [NC] RewriteRule ^/(..) /$1/home.html [R=301] # If no ln query, tack it on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !ln= [NC] RewriteRule ^/(..)/(.*) /$1/$2?ln=$1 [R=301]

Note: Be careful your 404 page works correctly. If it doesn't invalid links will end up in an infinite loop (ie, the 404 page wont work).
Note 2: If the user types in example.com/en, they will be redirected to example.com/en/en?ln=en, so be sure the tailing slash is in the URL, or else.
Note 3: If you want, you can drop the [R=301] from the last rule, then users will see example.com/en/home.html the request to the page will actually be example.com/en/home.html?ln=en. This will not work if your site uses GET requests though.

Edit 3:
Added another cond/rule pair to catch if someone types in just the language, without a trailing slash.

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    @Sam, just checked it, it works as expected. What error? Sure you got the curly brackets, parenthesizes, and braces correct? Commented Dec 6, 2010 at 18:56
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    It's possible your Apache server is interpreting something slightly different; try replacing /en$1 in the rule with /en/$1. Are there any other rules in the .htaccess file? Commented Dec 6, 2010 at 20:00
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    What version of Apache are you running? If you manually type in /en/somepage.php does it show up correctly? Commented Dec 6, 2010 at 20:47
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    @Sam, the first and last rule are going to start a mini-war. The first rule takes anything in the form /xx/asdf and makes it /asdf?ln=xx, the last will take that and make it /xx/asdf?ln=xx, which will trigger the first one again, causing a loop. Commented Dec 7, 2010 at 4:20
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    @Sam, it's probably be easiest to just edit the other rules into this question and include exactly how you want requests to be handled. Commented Dec 7, 2010 at 16:24
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Here is the code I use. It will accept any languages and country.

# Tout pays de 2 digits et langue de 2 ou 3 digits ou juste la langue pas de pays - fonctionne bien et passe language et country #www.country.com/index.html devient www.country.com/index.php #www.country.com/fr/index.html devient www.country.com/index.php?language=fr #www.country.com/ca/fr/index.html devient www.country.com/index.php?country=ca&language=fr RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]{2})/([a-zA-Z]{2,3})/index\.html$ index.html?country=$1&language=$2 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]{2,3})/index\.html$ index.html?language=$1 RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php [L]
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