Panel not working on new server (LC_CTYPE)

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1

Heya

I’ve had this error show up on my local machine before, but thought it was because of things not being rightly configured so I moved on.
Now moving the (working) site to a different server, I again see that error when I try to log in.
The frontend is working fine and all the language and language switching works as expected.
But as soon as I want to login into the panel, I get this error (after submiting my login data)

Argument 1 passed to Kirby\Toolkit\Str::before() 
must be of the type string, null given, called in 
/home/axanader/www/example.com/
docs/kirby/src/Cms/Language.php on line 421

the language files are basic:

# /site/languages/en.php
return [
  'code' => 'en',
  'direction' => 'ltr',
  'locale' => 'en_US',
  'name' => 'English',
];

I tried adding more local data, but this had no effect:

return [
  'code' => 'en',
  'direction' => 'ltr',
  'locale'	=> [
  	'en_US',
  	LC_ALL			=> 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_COLLATE	=> 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_MONETARY => 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_NUMERIC	=> 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_TIME		 	=> 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_MESSAGES => 'en_US.utf8',
  	LC_CTYPE		=> 'en_US.utf8'
  ],
  'name' => 'English',
];

I also tried adding setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf-8'); to the main index.php

Bash output for locale is:

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

which I am very much assuming I can not change, as it is a simple webhosting product.

If there is no other (kirby) option, I might ask the server admins to add this, although I hope there is another way?

Any input appreciated, thanks!

2

What if you add it like this:

'locale'	=> [
  	'en_US',
  ],

Have you done this for all languages?

3

damn! you’re always so fast in replying! awesome!

after some more testing (sorry, should have done that before, but your “all languages” hint was important)
I found, that one language was wrong:

    'locale' => [
        6 => 'it_IT'
    ],

It was setup using the panel, not via new file.
I have to check if we added this 6 or if it was done by the panel.

Changing it to

    'locale' => 'it_IT',

now lets me login to the panel

4

Ok. Confirming:
the 6 was added by the panel.
I tried adding a new language to the old server, and this file is created:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'gr',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        6 => 'el_GR'
    ],
    'name' => 'grisch',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => NULL
];

If I add a new language to the new sever, there is no 6:

<?php

return [
    'code' => 'gr',
    'default' => false,
    'direction' => 'ltr',
    'locale' => [
        'el_GR'
    ],
    'name' => 'grisch',
    'translations' => [

    ],
    'url' => NULL
];

Both are running v3.3.3

5

Yes, the result depends on the server.

6

any insight on what the 6 is used for and how this might break moving to different server?

7

@gork This issue known and will be fixed in the next version as 3.3.5:

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