[xgarb]

I've got further with this.

getShopURL now looks like this:

    public function getShopURL($url = '', $isSecure = null, array $params = array())
    {
    
    	//find current country code in URL
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'] = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH); 
	$segments = explode('/', substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'], 1)); 
	$lang_dir = $segments[0]; 
	$store_language = $lang_dir; //code from url
	if (in_array($store_language, array('es','it','fr','de'))){
	$url = $store_language.'/'.$url;
	}

        return \XLite\Core\URLManager::getShopURL($url, $isSecure, $params);
    }

and the relevant part of the htaccess file...

  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule ^es/(.*) /$1
  RewriteRule ^fr/(.*) /$1
  RewriteRule ^de/(.*) /$1
  RewriteRule ^it/(.*) /$1

  # #BUG-772 Add HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header for fastCGI (need for XC\Qiwi)
  RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
  RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

  RewriteRule (^|/)\. - [F]

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml(\?.+)?$ cart.php?target=sitemap [NC,L,QSA]

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/../
  RewriteRule ^((([/_a-z0-9-]+)/)?([_a-z0-9-]+)/)?([_a-z0-9-]+)(/?)(\.([_a-z0-9-]+))?$ cart.php?url=$5&last=$4&rest=$3&ext=$7 [NC,L,QSA]
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/../
  RewriteRule ^../((([/_a-z0-9-]+)/)?([_a-z0-9-]+)/)?([_a-z0-9-]+)(/?)(\.([_a-z0-9-]+))?$ cart.php?url=$5&last=$4&rest=$3&ext=$7 [NC,L,QSA]  

  RewriteBase /

I realised that getShopURL is used by everything to build the path so the above isn't very efficient in that the method is not just making the links have the correct path but making all the page contents have the wrong path which is then corrected by the first part of the htaccess file.

Without the second part of the htaccess there was a problem with deeper directories.

I need the have English in the root to match the current site.

Any ideas or input welcome!