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Django i18n translations not working in production (Heroku)

My translations are working locally, but in production at Heroku, my site remains in its default language (English) after changing the language.

These are in my settings.py file:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True

LOCALE_PATHS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale')]

This is my structure:

myproject
├── Procfile
├── locale
│   └── fr
│       └── LC_MESSAGES
│           ├── django.mo
│           └── django.po
├── myproject
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── settings.py

I thought it was a path issue so I SSH'd into my Heroku app and printed LOCALE_PATHS:

>>> from myproject.settings import LOCALE_PATHS
>>> print(LOCALE_PATHS)
['/app/locale']

And pwd in locale/ returns pwd /app/locale.

What did I do wrong?

Solution

  • I found the issue:
    my django.mo file was ignored by .gitignore as I use the default GitHub Python gitignore file.