Django.mo? Partial Translation When deployed

When deploying my django app, all the translation works perfectly locally. I translated everything in django.po and python manage.py compilemessages locally. However, it doesn’t work somehow on server. Only part of the website is translated on VPS.

  • At first, Ubuntu 18.4 prompt error when I tried to compile:

    (venv)$ django-admin makemessages -l ru -i venv
# DO NOT forget to ignore virtualenv folder
(venv)$ django-admin compilemessages
# CommandError: Can't find msgfmt. Make sure you have GNU gettext tools 0.15 or newer installed.
  
# easy fix:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y gettext libgettextpo-dev
  
# Then you can run command compilemessages, however, the website is still partly in English, didn't help... so what went wrong?

  • DO NOT forget to delete the fuzzy tag in .po file, for everything to be properly displayed/translated

  • It turned out I needed to restart the server:

    $ sudo service gunicorn restart

Now everything will be applied, and it only takes a second!