Help! Empty page for one language :( Rest works fine

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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I’m working on this website and everything was fine. But now disaster stroke: On http://www.novis-technik-design.de/de/DesignLine/FloEvo I only get to see an empty default tempate. The german content file is not found. If you switch to English everything works perfectly fine.

I tried everything:

  • Reuploading the file
  • Changing the file permissons back and forth
  • Renaming the content file and the template

Nothing works. The site is on 2.0.6.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2

Did you try switching on debugging in your config:

c::set('debug', true);
3

Yup… no output. And the server logs are empty too.

4

did you check the content files on the server? anything weird there?

5

No, everything looks perfectly normal. I’m going to redeploy the whole website and see what happens…

6

I can’t find my problem… Apparently it exists since a while as even a redeploy didn’t fix it. The same problem occours in the panel: An empty default blueprint is loaded. When I make any changes (e.g. to the title) and save, the changes are not persisted. Any ideas?

EDIT: solved. This is really weird. Within the folder of the page there’s a PDF file. This PDF has three associated metadata files, as there used to be a swiss version which is disabled for now. However kirby took the swiss metadata file of the PDF which was still there, appended de-de.txt for the german-Germany-version and used that as the content file?! All changes made in the panel were reflected in there. A first fix was to delete all PDF metadata files, which lets me fear that this problem will reoccur if I create them again.

7

Sounds similar to a problem I had: esp for the pages where the panel doesn’t save the changes anymore, can you check if you maybe got three content files now – page.txt, page.de.txt and page.en.txt?

8

Good idea, happened to me so often after enabling multiple languages… However in this case things were way weirder, see my edit above.

9

I had a similar problem recently where the metadata file of a renamed image was taken for a content text file: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues/207

I wonder if there is a way to prevent that happening, @bastianallgeier? Somehow exclude files that contain certain file extensions from being regarded as content files?