Configure Default Store View

Magento 2 Frontend Design
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My Setup

  1. Shared server
  2. My host company installed Magento
  3. Ubuntu, Apache & PHP 7.2
  4. Magento 2.3

What I’m trying to do
My website will be in 2 different languages, which the visitor can change between through a dropdown in the upper right corner. It will be Swedish and English. I want the Swedish vesion to be the first and primary store view to be seen when entering the URL. So I have created two different store views as these photos:

Stores
Stores.PNG1715×266 18.2 KB

Eng
Eng.PNG841×503 13 KB
Sv
Sv.PNG790×479 12.8 KB

I have read other threads at other help-sites that it should be a drop down in any of the store views saying “Default Store” - Yes/No but I dont have this drop down. I also trid to do this by changing the Base URL for the Swedish site to www.myurl.com/sv/ as the code and then www.myurl.com/en/. After that I change the “Default Config” Base URL to www.myurl.com/sv/ but then I lost access to the admin panel so I had to change it back thorugh MyPhp. Any advice would be so highly appreciated!

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The way I’ve seen others do similar things is by leaving the “Default” Store (aka “Svenska”) as domain.com.

And then for other languages add the country codes such as domain.com/en/, domain.com/fr/, etc…

Where abouts are you referring?

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Hi Craig,

Thanks for reaching out. I do not really understand how to do this, so I would appreciate guidance. I would like the Swedish version of the store to be the first version displayed when entering the home URL www.mypage.com. Its OK that the URL redirects to www.mypage.com/sv/ automatically here.

Then in a dropdown, the visitor is able to change to English version and then I want the English version to be displayed. Here its OK that the URL redirects to www.mypage.com/en/

Can you please guide me how to do this.
Thank you.

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Hi Craig,
Thank you again for your encouraging and motivation to be able to find own solutions to problems. I made this one, so its fixed :slight_smile:

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Awesome :+1:

Sorry, I couldn’t answer sooner. I was working away this weekend on another project. I only got back late last night. Perhaps, if you find time you could share your solution for others who need the same help?

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My solution was an easy-fix :wink:
Since the theme already had 2 store views installed (English and Swedish) and English was the default language that you say at the first time entering the store. I just changed the “name/titel/Text/tag” of English to Swedish and Swedish to English. And Viola! Then “Swedish” was the first language to see when entering the URL.

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