Redirects do not work when using Django's i18n_patterns() wrapper

Issue Summary

When using Wagtail wrapped by Django’s i18n_patterns, redirects only work for “exactly that URL” instead of also for the localised versions. E.g. /from-page => /to-page only works for http://site/from-page but not http://site/en-us/from-page.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Set up a standard wagtail install
2. follow the wagtail instructions on turning on internationalisation, with at least on LANGUAGES entry, I’d recommend en-us.
3. create a redirect for /test to the homepage.
4. navigate to localhost:8000/test and observe it redirecting to localhost:8000
5. navigate to localhost:8000/es-us/test
6. this is a 404 instead of redirecting properly

• I have confirmed that this issue can be reproduced as described on a fresh Wagtail project: yes

The fix for this is updating the wagtail.contrib.redirects middleware to, in _get_redirect, remove the locale prefix from the path to resolve, if request.LANGUAGE_CODE exists.

Technical details

• Python version: 3.7.7
• Django version: 3.1
• Wagtail version: 2.11.2
• Browser version: irrelevant

[Pomax]

fair enough, but note that the docs still tell folks to use either wagtailtrans or wagtail-modeltranslations over on https://docs.wagtail.io/en/stable/advanced_topics/i18n.html?highlight=localization#alternative-internationalisation-plugins if they need an alternative, meaning it’s basically one of the two official recommendations.

[lb-]

@raminjrmz this issue has been closed for some time - see above comments.

I recommend you start a discussion about your problem and see if others can provide a work around. Or if you feel there is a bug that is not covered by this response above - maybe a new bug is needed.