I really, really need a valid(!) guide how to setup a multilingual site

Wednesday 10 November 2004 1:04:07 am

Hi Uli,

Sadly the documentation hasn't received much focus lately as the new admin has taken most of our time this release cycle (3.5), however documentation will be our main foucs for the next cycle (just like the admin was this cycle). Hopefully then we will be able to write better multilingual doc.

I found a couple of threads which might be of interest:
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/developer/multilingual_site_images
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/multilingual_site_possible_to_create_content_only_in_the_non_primary_language
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/i_really_need_a_step_by_step_guide_on_how_to_setup_a_multilingual_site
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/siteaccess_for_multilingual_site

Ole M.

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Thursday 11 November 2004 1:16:55 am

BTW, this is what I get when calling my german siteaccess (index.php/de).
(My provider told me my account is not limited as far as RAM is concerned.)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 128 bytes) in /srv/www/...path.../ezp344cms2/lib/ezi18n/classes/ezcharsetinfo.php on line 65
Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request

The execution of Exponential was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.

eZ debug
Timing: Nov 11 2004 09:53:36
Script start

Timing: Nov 11 2004 09:53:36
Module start 'content'

Timing points:
Checkpoint Elapsed Rel. Elapsed Memory Rel. Memory
Script start 0.0000 sec 0.1800 sec 1,380.4766KB 1,215.5078KB
Module start 'content' 0.1800 sec 2,595.9844KB 0.0010KB
Total runtime: 12.3097 sec

Time accumulators:
Accumulator Elapsed Percent Count Average
ini_load
Load cache 0.1333 sec 1.0821% 8 0.0167 sec
Mysql Total
Mysql_queries 0.0142 sec 0.1156% 17 0.0008 sec
Looping result 0.0024 sec 0.0194% 13 0.0002 sec
Template Total
Template load 0.0000 sec 0.0000% 0 0.0000 sec
Template parser: create text elements 0.0127 sec 0.1032% 2 0.0064 sec
Template parser: remove whitespace 0.0029 sec 0.0238% 2 0.0015 sec
Template parser: construct tree 0.1310 sec 1.0630% 2 0.0655 sec
Template load and register function 0.0226 sec 0.1836% 4 0.0057 sec
override
Cache load 0.0318 sec 0.2583% 1 0.0318 sec
TS translator
TS init 0.0000 sec 0.0000% 0 0.0000 sec
TS load 0.0000 sec 0.0000% 0 0.0000 sec
General
String conversion 3.6346 sec 29.4973% 1 3.6346 sec
String conversion w/ codepage reverse 3.6341 sec 29.4929% 1 3.6341 sec
Total script time: 12.3219 sec

Thursday 11 November 2004 3:34:47 am

Hi Uli

I think that your settings are wrong

I setup mulitilngual site using this tutorial http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/how_to_setup_a_multilingual_site

and everything works fine.

Do not modyfi your orginal site.ini file. Create settings/override/site.ini.append.php file and ther change your settings. Add this

[SiteAccessSettings]
#this part tells how the site access setting is chosen, in this case, by the uri
MatchOrder=uri
URIMatchType=element
URIMatchElement=1
URIMatchRegexp=^/([^/]+)/
URIMatchRegexpItem=1
#this part tells ezp which siteaccess folders are available
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=en
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=fr
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=de
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=en_admin
DebugAccess=enabled

[RegionalSettings]
#allow translations
TextTranslation=enabled
#cache the translations, can be disabled 
if desired (can take a long time the first time the language is accessed)
TranslationCache=enabled

[ContentSettings]
#translations available for the content
TranslationList=eng-GB;fre-FR;ger-DE
#you can enable this after you have everything setup, 
leave it disabled to see if you did it right!
ViewCaching=disabled

This setting use only in settings/override/site.ini.php. Then create folders in
settings/siteaccess/de
settings/siteaccess/fr
settings/siteaccess/en
settings/siteaccess/en_admin
and for each folder create site.ini.append.php file with

for EN

[RegionalSettings]
Locale=eng-US
HTTPLocale=en
ContentObjectLocale=eng-US

for FR

[RegionalSettings]
Locale=fre-FR
HTTPLocale=fr
ContentObjectLocale=fre-FR

when u accessing site like this example.com/index.php/en
ez usineg your site.iniappend.php file in settings/siteaccess/en/ folder

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Thursday 11 November 2004 1:17:27 pm

Did you build your site with the wizard and then made modifications for multilinguality?

Yes I did.

Is your site on-line? Maybe i could help u setup your mulitlingula site.

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Saturday 13 November 2004 2:08:28 am

Luke changed settings as desrcibed below:

He removed

[ContentSettings]
TranslationList=fre-FR;ger-DE

from the settings/siteaccess/site.ini-and-so-on-files. These settings were originally generated by the wizard.

In the settings/override/site.ini...-file is still the following entry:

[ContentSettings]
TranslationList=eng-GB;fre-FR;ger-DE
ViewCaching=disabled

So with these settings, it runs.
Thank you very much, Luke!

Saturday 13 November 2004 5:39:16 pm

Hi Uli

> BTW, this is what I get when calling my german siteaccess (index.php/de).
> (My provider told me my account is not limited as far as RAM is concerned.)
>
> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 128 bytes) in
> /srv/www/...path.../ezp344cms2/lib/ezi18n/classes/ezcharsetinfo.php on line 65
> Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request

This error indicates that php is setup with a 20Mb limit (memory_limit = 20M) and that this value has been exceeded. Now I'm not sure if the use of memory is due to the way your ezp is configured or that the translation process requires more memory than the regular site. Try getting you provider to increase this value and check the results.

Hope this helps
Cheers
Bruce

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Thursday 03 February 2005 7:11:30 am

In the Site Wizard setup portion of the site, do I have to choose the additional languages?

Thanks
-Neil

Friday 11 February 2005 4:20:44 am

Look here for template code which provides access to a certain language:

http://www.ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/how_can_i_manipulate_strings_in_ezpublish_template_language

I found out some statements here concerning multilanguage setup are just wrong. Perhaps I can decribe more details here later on.

Saturday 24 September 2005 2:21:13 pm

I'm trying to create my first multilingual site, starting from the "shop" template created by the site wizard on my windows test-machine (using version 3.6.2), without success. I studied all the relevant posts and guides for more than a week now. I bought the "Learning ..." book, I googled outside this forum, but I am really at a loss now....

This is the thread that got me furthest. But now when I try to access a different language (e.g. http://localhost/it) I get a "Access Denied" page (in Italian...)
I checked all permissions and all options in the *.ini files and can't figure out what the problem is. Can anybody help-out?

=================================================
This is the Debug output:
Module start 'content'
Error: error/view.php
Error ocurred using URI: /it
Timing:
Module end 'error'
Warning: PHP
Undefined variable: show2 inModule start 'content'

===========================================
These are the relevant settings in
siteaccess/en/site.ini.append.php:

[SiteSettings]
SiteName=SottOlio
SiteURL=localhost
LoginPage=embedded

[RegionalSettings]
Locale=eng-GB
HTTPLocale=en
ContentObjectLocale=eng-GB
============================================
This is the diff between the en/ and the it/ site.ini.append.php files:
< SiteURL=localhost
---
> SiteURL=localhost/it
32,34c32,34
< Locale=eng-GB
< HTTPLocale=en
< ContentObjectLocale=eng-GB
---
> Locale=ita-IT
> HTTPLocale=it
> ContentObjectLocale=ita-IT
==========================================

And finally, this is the relevant part of the override/site.ini.append.php file:

[SiteSettings]
DefaultAccess=en
SiteList[]
SiteList[]=en

[SiteAccessSettings]
CheckValidity=false
AvailableSiteAccessList[]
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=en
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=fr
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=it
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=de
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=so_admin
MatchOrder=uri
URIMatchType=element
URIMatchElement=1
URIMatchRegexp=^/([^/]+)/
URIMatchRegexpItem=1
HostMatchMapItems[]
DebugAccess=enabled

[RegionalSettings]
#allow translations
TextTranslation=enabled
TranslationCache=enabled

[ContentSettings]
TranslationList=eng-GB;fre-FR;ger-DE;ita-IT
ViewCaching=disabled
===============================================