index.htlm before index.php

[Nicky]

3-language site, homepage is the nl version, which is installed at the root of the server.

2 extra folders fr & nl.

Client wants - directly on www.domain.com - an opening page offering 'choose your language'.

I made this page in html, and uploaded to the server as index.html

Next step, made .htaccess file to render index.htlm before index.php

So far so good. But now the 'problem' is, when I want to offer the nl (prime) language on the index.html page, I have to put the link www.domain.com/index.php to start the cmsimple site. This works fine, but now of course all url's of the nl prime version get the extra 'index.php'.

So in fact, I have changed all URL's of the website's prime nl-version, site is online for some time and had quite good Google results. When I search Google now for this site, every page is listed, but when I click, I'm always forwarded to the 'choose language' (index.html) page.

Is there any other way to accomplish this without changing the original url's?
Thanks in advance for yr reactions.

[cmb]

Hi Nicky,

you might consider using an intro page, i.e. the first page of the three languages is hidden and displays the language selection.

Christoph