<p>The problem you're <em>probably</em> facing isn't that URLs like</p>

<p><a href="http://example.com/en/news/example" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/en/news/example</a><br>
<a href="http://example.com/fr/nouvelles/exemple" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/fr/nouvelles/exemple</a></p>

<p>don't work, but that you're not getting the sections' index pages to load because they're just a index.html file in your templates/news/ folder (→ routing case 6 in <a href="https://craftcms.com/docs/routing" rel="nofollow">https://craftcms.com/docs/routing</a>).</p>

<p>For a multi locale setup with translated slugs it's recommended to not rely on "URI to template matching" at all and create an entry or category for every page, so Craft sets up the routes for all the translated slugs automatically (→ routing case 4).</p>

<p>In your case you'd just create an entry for your News index page, e.g through a single section. In the single section's settings set up the URLs for your locales and route them to your template.</p>

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2016-03-24T10:50:00.470Z
Using a single section for the overview page did the job for me.

Thank you for your support!
Marco Schuler
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2016-03-24T08:48:53.533Z
2016-03-24T08:48:53.533Z
carlcs
<p>I'm setting up my first multilingual website with Craft. I'm struggling with multilingual slugs.</p>

<p>This is how I'd like the slugs to look like.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/cEphh.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/cEphh.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>If I do this tough, I need to adapt my folder structure. To get it working I needed to create folder structure like this</p>

<p><code>/fr/nouvelles/</code><br>
<code>/en/news/</code></p>

<p>both containing the same templates.</p>

<p>Is it possible to get this working without needing to copy the templates? I'd like to always load the same template(/news/), without the language specific folder structure.</p>

<localization><slug>
Multilingual slug setup
# Multilingual slug setup

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-24)

I'm setting up my first multilingual website with Craft. I'm struggling with multilingual slugs.

This is how I'd like the slugs to look like.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/cEphh.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/cEphh.png)

If I do this tough, I need to adapt my folder structure. To get it working I needed to create folder structure like this

`/fr/nouvelles/`  
`/en/news/`

both containing the same templates.

Is it possible to get this working without needing to copy the templates? I'd like to always load the same template(/news/), without the language specific folder structure.

**Tags:** localization, slug

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-03-24. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

The problem you're *probably* facing isn't that URLs like

<http://example.com/en/news/example>  
<http://example.com/fr/nouvelles/exemple>

don't work, but that you're not getting the sections' index pages to load because they're just a index.html file in your templates/news/ folder (→ routing case 6 in <https://craftcms.com/docs/routing>).

For a multi locale setup with translated slugs it's recommended to not rely on "URI to template matching" at all and create an entry or category for every page, so Craft sets up the routes for all the translated slugs automatically (→ routing case 4).

In your case you'd just create an entry for your News index page, e.g through a single section. In the single section's settings set up the URLs for your locales and route them to your template.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Using a single section for the overview page did the job for me.  Thank you for your support!  

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