Magento2: Remove Store Code URL only for default store

Question

I am developing a Magento 2 store with two store views, one for each language(English and Italian). I turned on the "Add Store Code to Urls" option from backend, so my URLs looks like:

http://mystore.com/en (English)
http://mystore.com/it (Italian)

What I would like to do now is to remove the store code from URL for the default store view, to obtain something like this:

http://mystore.com/ (English)
http://mystore.com/it (Italian)

In Magento 1.9 there a few extensions that do this. I need to find something (or develop) for Magento 2.

Anyone has some hints?

A good example of what I am searching for is this: https://github.com/lalitmohann/magento-hide-default-store-code

Answer 1

I had the same requirement and was able to solve it easily with just one plugin for Magento\Store\Model\Store::isUseStoreInUrl method.

public function afterIsUseStoreInUrl(\Magento\Store\Model\Store $subject, $resultIsUseInUrl)
{
    if ($subject->getCode() != $subject::ADMIN_CODE && $subject->isDefault())
    {
        return $resultIsUseInUrl && $this->scopeConfig->getValue('web/url/use_store_in_default');
    }
    else
    {
        return $resultIsUseInUrl;
    }
}

I registered the plugin in global di.xml instead of frontend because the first time this method is called area has not yet been set so the plugin would not get executed.

Answer 2

We created an extension for this issue. We used an after plugin on Magento\Store\Model\Store::IsUseStoreInUrl to check if the store code is not the admin store and if the store is the default store. You can find the extension here : https://github.com/customgento/module-default-store-code-remover-m2

Answer 3

Turn off store code URLs in adminside

admin > stores > configuration > General > Web > Add Store Code to Urls > To set NO

After Run upgrade, static-content-deploy, and cache clean/flush commands.