Kentico 7 zone location.

Hi Jorge!

The language version (culture) of the site that is served to a visitor is determined by several factors. The first one is cookies. Cookie 'CMSPreferredCulture' is the one, that determines what language is served. If no cookie is available, User's prefered culture (configured in the administration UI) is served. If no user is logged in, browser settings are taken into account. FireFox has these stored in "%appdata%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles<somejibberish>.default\prefs.js" and the line goes like this: user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "en-us"); The setting is also available via UI:

So verify your geman visitor has no cookies 'CMSPreferredCulture', is not logged in (easier), has browser configured to accept german language only, your site has the german culture associated. (CMSSiteManager > Sites > Edit > Cultures) and also that the document served by default is available in german version.

Hello Jorge,

I've been solving a similar issue with one of our customers in the past and here is the solution that worked:

1. You will need to use the Global events:

2. You should be interested in: CMSSessionEvents -> Start

And code example:

string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
string currentCountryName = IP2CountryHelper.GetCountryByIp(ipAddress);

switch (currentCountryName)
{

case "INDIA":
CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "hi-IN";
break;
case "UNITED KINGDOM":
CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "en-GB";
break;
default:
CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode= "en-US";
break;
} 

Best regards, Martin

Hello Martin.

This is what i need!

But i dont know where i need to put this code, i didnt find any CMSSessionEvents options in the CMS. I tried to edit the CMSSessionEvents.cs file in App_Code/Handlers, but i get a lot of errors like:

CS1519: Invalid token 'switch' in class, struct, or interface member declaration

and if i comment the switch i get this error:

CS0103: The name 'IP2CountryHelper' does not exist in the current context

For this second error i suppose i need to add a using at the top, but i don't know what i need to add

This is my CMSSessionEvents.cs file

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

using CMS.SettingsProvider;

/// <summary>
/// Global CMS session events
/// </summary>
public class CMSSessionEvents
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Fires upon the application start
    /// </summary>
    public static CMSHandler Start = new CMSHandler();

    string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
    string currentCountryName = IP2CountryHelper.GetCountryByIp(ipAddress);

        switch (currentCountryName)
        {
            case "SPAIN":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "es-es";
            break;
            case "FRANCE":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "fr-FR";
            break;
            case "BELGIUM":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "fr-FR";
            break;
            case "CANADA":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "fr-FR";
            break;
            case "GERMANY":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "de-DE";
            break;
            case "RUSSIAN FEDERATION":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "ru-RU";
            break;
            case "UNITED KINGDOM":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "en-GB";
            break;
            case "UNITED STATES":
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode = "en-us";
            break;
            default:
            CMSContext.CurrentUser.PreferredCultureCode= "en-GB";
            break;
        }


    /// <summary>
    /// Fires upon the application end
    /// </summary>
    public static CMSHandler End = new CMSHandler();
}

Thank you so much for your help!

You can find more information on how to register event handlers here