Language switcher combobox stays empty Topic is solved

[ekelmans]

Hi,

I have taken over http://flyballdogs.be from an other webmaster, and i've been adding all sorts of stuff. At first i thought Joomla was unnecessarily hard to use until after a few days the penny dropped. No i think it's design is awesome

Everything i wanted to get working including iframes to a few pages of from our .net based registration website, [youtube], random photos, etc etc.

The last thing on my list however is giving me grief... making the website multilingual.

I found some posts that i needed to fix any errors in the "Multilingual status" on NL, FR and GB, and then tried 2 more walk-throughs without any success. And as far i can see i'm on the last version

I made a workaround by adding a flag in the menu to switch between NL and FR (the 2 most common languages in Belgium), but that is not helping me to separate article based on language.

I have added the post assisant data below.

I hope someone can give me a pointer?

I'm a 55 y/o MS-SQL DBA with some (Azure DEVOPS) .NET web dev experience, so you can be technically brutal with your feedback. Bring it on! Where did i f*ck up?

Theo Ekelmans
Webmaster: flyballdogs.be

Language switcher combobox stays empty

I can find no errors anywhere

error_log file is empty beside login failure messages

Worked until "Multilingual status" gave no error on NL, FR and GB, and the tried 2 more walkthroughs without any success.

I made a workaround by adding a flag in the menu to switch between NL and FR (the 2 most common laguages in belgium.

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[Per Yngve Berg]

You have some issues on the server:

Session Path Writable: No (must be yes)
Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
No folder should be 777. Set to 755.

It looks like the Language Filter Plugin is not enabled. There is no Language in the url.
Have you made top categories for each language (en, nl, fr)?
Have you made a menu for each language?

[ekelmans]

Hi Per,

I've been a windows guy for 3 decades, so i have only basic linux knowledge, so help a lost soul in the linux jungle out here.

Where is the session path relative to /domains/flyballdogs.be/public_html?

i have renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess

http://flyballdogs.be/index.php/home-fr is also showing a -nl , you are seeing the workaround at the moment, otherwise the menu is empty besides HOME

As for your remark: "top categories for each language", i am not sure, can you give me a pointer to a documentation page or article?

And thank you ver much for the fast reply

Theo

[john-doe]

http://flyballdogs.be/index.php/home-fr is also showing a -nl , you are seeing the workaround at the moment, otherwise the menu is empty besides HOME

The address throws me Error 404

[imanickam]

Reviewed the site and it looks like the menu items are not associated. For example, the menu item
NOUVELLES (French) is not associated with the menu item NIEUWS (Dutch).

[ekelmans]

@All

After some more investigation it (the switch staying empty) was due to the language filter set to guest access, when it should have been public, and like Per and imanickam suggested categories and associations !

It's probably due to the previous webmaster attempts to get multilingual to work, but It all works as advertised now.

Me is a happy webmaster

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated!

Theo

[Per Yngve Berg]

The session is stored in the folder set by the variable save.session.path in php.ini