Language change

  • I’m in the progress of installing WP, and so far so good, it works beutifully. But, when trying to change to Swedish, WP clings on to English, although I have been most obediant when installing ‘sv_SE’ in th new folder ‘languages’ and made appropiate modifications in wp-config.
    How come???

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  • Not quite as simple. The default setup for an Apache server is, as I understand, not to let users watch files in directories like e.g. /wp-includes/languages ? I just tried the above link in a browser.

    I’ve installed WordPress again in the root directory, and plugins, themes and the lot work perfectly. It’s a joy! The only thing that doesn’t work, is language.

    I’m quite sure about the file location. I would have checked it, if not the world, for some reason, decided it wouldn’t allow me to receive a file listing through ftp today :o/

    Ah. Issue fixed for me. It was all a simple matter of file permissions – although it took some time to track down!

    I had put the .mo file right, but as I had to make the /wp-includes/languages directory myself, I got the wrong permissions for it (read: didn’t check it).

    The /languages directory has to be world accessible, ie. drwxr-xr-x or 755. I also think everybody must be able to read your .mo-file, ie. rw-r–r– (that may perhaps not neccessary, but I consider it a safe choice).
    Non-technical: Everybody must be able to go into the language directory and read the language file. Two short chmod ftp commands fixed it.

    Thanks for your patience, and for bearing with my stoopid questions. I’m happy now. All that remains now, is to get my favourite theme and plugin in my own language. ??

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