Don't show language code for default language in URL of Django CMS site - django-cms

Question

When I set up a multilingual DjangoCMS powered website the default language code is appended to the URL:
http://mypage.com/ -> http://mypage.com/en
I don't want this to be the case for the default language (e.g. 'en') Instead what I want is the default language being chosen when there's no language identifier within the URL:
http://mypage.com -> Choose English
http://mypage.com/fr -> Choose French
http://mypage.com/it -> Choose Italian
How can this be done?
Versions:
Django CMS 3.0.3
Django 1.6.5
Python 2.7

Answer 1

I wrote this for a project that's currently using it in production, they use django-cms 2.4.3 but I don't see why it would not work on 3.0, all you need to do is create middleware.py file in one of your apps, say core and then replace django's locale middleware with the path to this one, since it's a subclass of it.

Answer 2

I faced a similar situation for a web site based Django CMS version 3.4.5 and Django version 1.8.18. At first sight this seems to be a Django CMS concern, but later I realized this is more related with core Django, which has been natively addressed by the recent versions of this project.
A working solution
The straightforward solution I applied involved these changes:
Upgrade to Django version 1.11.8 (any version >= 1.10 should work). A shell command like pip install Django==1.11.8 --upgrade can achieve this.
Edit the urls.py file to change it like the following:
Original content of urls.py file:
urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), # NOQA
url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
)
New content of urls.py file:
urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), # NOQA
url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
prefix_default_language=False
)
Apply Django migrations, which are part of the new version of Django
Run again the Django project and visually verify the new desired behavior
I should mention that someone with the nick FalseID at the #django-cms IRC channel gave me the advice to find this solution, as well as other related tips.
Other references
Existing answer that applies to a general Django project https://stackoverflow.com/a/43911714/6693126 if the version of Django is >= 1.10. This describes a similar situation to mine.
For Django versions < 1.10, this answer is useful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17517000/6693126 which is based on the django-solid-i18n-urls package. I have not tested this procedure, but it should work.