404 page when switching stores on magento product pages

Question

i am trying to fix the following problem:

When i create a new product, i always give the english store a different url than the german store. On the frontend when i switch from the german store to the english store, it returns a 404 page. on the german product page the country id (de) is in the url (http://website/de/product1.html). But when i switch to the english store the link looks like this: http://website/product1.html (without country id). And that gives me a 404 page!

Note: When i add the "en" country id to the url it works perfect.

can someone help me resolve this issue?

Magento Version 1.7.

Answer 1

Maybe try to change your english storeview base URL :

1. go to System -> Config then choose your english store view
2. then, in the config panel, go to general -> web
3. in "secure" -> Base URL uncheck "use website" and add en/ at the end of the URL.
4. do the same in in "unsecure"

I expect it will work.