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UrlMaster now breaks the language switching ability. I'm running Url Master v1.14.11.0 on DNN 5.1.1CE. There are 2 langugaes installed, English and Spanish. I have tried boththe DotNetNuke language switcher and the Apollo language switcher, and both are broken. I have also tried them with, and without, the setting "Enable Language Parameter in URLs," which controld whether /language/en-US is in the URL string. Nothing works.

> this same setup worked fine in DNN v4.9.4.
> changing the friendlyUrl default provider from iFinity.UrlMaster to DNNFriendlyUrl fixes the problem.

Any advice would be much appreciated. To keep existing SEO rank, we're operating sites with the language switchers broken and UrlMaster enabled for the time being. It seemed like the lesser of 2 evils.

There's a toggle within DNN for whether the language is included in the URL (such as .../language/en-US/...). Whether that is enabled or disabled made no difference in that no language switching was done anyway. In other words, when trying to switch languages, a page full of English redisplays in English when it should be displaying in Spanish.

There aren't any traceable errors - either in the DNN logs or the IIS logs - and no errors get displayed on screen.

When trying to switch languages by either selecting the locale in a dropdown, or clicking a flag that's displayed, the page seems to refresh but no languiage switching is performed.

It's pretty easy to recereate - just install an additional language pack and choose one of the stock DNN skins for display that contains the Languiage control (most of them have it I think).