Translated content not accessible / wrong links At the moment I am working on a multilingual page (German/English). I finished adding my German content, and want to add my English version, so I can access it like examplesite.com/examplepage (German) --> examplesite.com/en/examplepage (English).

The steps I did so far:


I enabled the right custom language settings for translation
I added the needed pathauto-patterns
added a path-prefix-configuration for English "en"


My problem now is the fact, that I can't access these pages after adding the translations.

This means when I access a German site in the front end, and click the language switch to the English version, it won't link me to the translated content but only refreshes the page.

The same weird behaviour is shown in the backend on the content-overview page. The translated pages all exist in the list and if I hover over the title it will show me the right URL like e.g. examplesite.com/en/examplepage but when I open the url it will just show me a 404. It seems that the content is not connected to the right, translated urls.

Am I missing something?
In addition to enabling "URL" Detection method (path prefix or domain) and positioning it to be used first, you also have to Configure it. 


Set German as your Default language under  Administration > Configuration > Regional and language 
Go to the Language Detection and Selection page and enable the "URL" Detection method
On the Language Detection and Selection page click through the Configure button for the URL (/admin/config/regional/language/detection/url)
Select "Path prefix" as the " Part of the URL that determines language" option
Delete the de from the "German (de) path prefix (Default language)" option
Clear cache! This can be tricky through the interface if you're using the admin module because the /de/ might linger on the menus but will lead to a Page not found. Delete the /de/ in your browser Location bar from the flush cache link to make it work. 


After this you should have the correct Home in German, without the /de, German content and links without the prefix and English content and links with /en/.