Language switch not working in frontend

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Hi guys,

I’m hunching over a curious problem and am at this point at a loss:

I’ve set up a multi language site in the following way:

  1. set up config files for local, stage and production

  2. put into the config

    c::set(‘debug’,true);
    c::set(‘languages’, array(
    array(
    ‘code’ => ‘en’,
    ‘name’ => ‘English’,
    ‘default’ => true,
    ‘locale’ => ‘en_US’,
    ‘url’ => ‘/en’,
    ),
    array(
    ‘code’ => ‘de’,
    ‘name’ => ‘Deutsch’,
    ‘locale’ => ‘de_DE’,
    ‘url’ => ‘/de’,
    ),
    array(
    ‘code’ => ‘es’,
    ‘name’ => ‘Español’,
    ‘locale’ => ‘es_ES’,
    ‘url’ => ‘/es’,
    ),
    array(
    ‘code’ => ‘fr’,
    ‘name’ => ‘Deutsch’,
    ‘locale’ => ‘de_DE’,
    ‘url’ => ‘/de’,
    ),
    array(
    ‘code’ => ‘cn’,
    ‘name’ => ‘中文’,
    ‘locale’ => ‘zh_CN’,
    ‘url’ => ‘/cn’,
    ),
    ));
    c::set(‘language.detect’, true);
    c::set(‘live’,false);
    c::set(‘minifyhtml’,false);

and set up a languages directory with the corresponding files (although they are all empty for now) like so:

- languages
-- cn.php
-- de.php
-- en.php
-- es.php
-- fr.php

Within Kirby everything works like a charm, editing different languages, filling in different values, saving (checked).
However, when I change to the website’s frontend, even though the url changes no other language but english only shows.

Do you have an idea what I’m missing here?

Thanks a lot,
Tom

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You seem to have German twice in your config, if that isn’t a typo? (You are using a different code, but the url/language name etc. is twice Deutsch). Do all languages have content files for all languages? If not, then Kirby will fall back to the default language.

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Oh boy…the duplicate of DE was it, naming it to FR did it. Thx a lot @texnixe