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Peiwen Li
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Django Deployment: Translation Error in Deployment

#django #python #webdev #beginners

Originally written on 2020-03-02. DEV's displayed publication date reflects this archive migration.

Django.mo? Partial Translation When deployed

When deploying my django app, all the translation works perfectly locally. I translated everything in django.po and python manage.py compilemessages locally. However, it doesn't work somehow on server. Only part of the website is translated on VPS.

  • ### At first, Ubuntu 18.4 prompt error when I tried to compile: 
  (venv)$ django-admin makemessages -l ru -i venv
  # DO NOT forget to ignore virtualenv folder
  (venv)$ django-admin compilemessages
  # CommandError: Can't find msgfmt. Make sure you have GNU gettext tools 0.15 or newer installed.

  # easy fix:
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install -y gettext libgettextpo-dev

  # Then you can run command compilemessages, however, the website is still partly in English, didn't help... so what went wrong?
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  • DO NOT forget to delete the fuzzy tag in .po file, for everything to be properly displayed/translated

  • It turned out I needed to restart the server: 

  $ sudo service gunicorn restart
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Now everything will be applied, and it only takes a second!

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