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How that is setup, either as subfolders, subdomains or separate URLS is up to you.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Likes</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/gideondsouza'><span itemprop='name'>gideondsouza</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2017-09-26T16:25:15Z' class='post-time'> September 26, 2017, 4:25pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2017-09-26T16:25:15Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>hi.</p> <p>could you add more details please?</p> <p>I have <code>mysite.com</code> which is all in English.I want to setup <code>mysite.de</code> in german. i want to have articles like this:<br> say I have<code>mysite.com/blog/my-article</code>. The german version would be: <code>mysite.de/blog/mein-artikel</code></p> <p>and if there was a way to click some lang button to goto the same article in the language of choice.</p> <p>how is this best possible? i assume this would of course need two hugo sites setup each on a domain.?</p> <p>thanks</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_4' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mikeaja'><span itemprop='name'>mikeaja</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2017-09-26T18:02:05Z' class='post-time'> September 26, 2017, 6:02pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2017-09-26T18:02:05Z'> <span itemprop='position'>4</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Old post! I don’t remember what was before. But in my opinion the idea still applies. Hugo makes this possible in different ways.</p> <p>For convenience I wouldn’t make 2 separate sites (I’d want template changes to impact both languages). Last time I did this I used the content params with a flag to each language. And I used the ideas in a previous version of this page <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/</a> to create the content.</p> <p>The final result is a public folder with separate folders for each language. 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