Using YAMS on Nginx in Evolution CMS

A minimal Nginx rewrite example for older YAMS-based multilingual Evolution CMS projects using language prefixes such as /ru/ and /en/.

Multilingual Evolution CMS setups based on YAMS often need a small Nginx adjustment so language-prefixed URLs resolve correctly before the request reaches the parser.

Example rewrite block

location ~ /(ru|en)/ {
    root /path/to/site;
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(ru|en)/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$2 last;
    }
}

What it does

matches language prefixes such as /ru/ and /en/
checks whether the requested file exists physically
rewrites unresolved requests back to index.php?q=...

It is intentionally small, but this kind of configuration detail is exactly what can decide whether a multilingual site feels stable or fragile in production.

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