1 Topic by Thort

  • Registered: 2006-09-15
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Topic: No valid language pack

Hi !

I decided to reinstall the forum from scratch.

- Deleted the old database content.

- Deleted the old forum content on my server.

- Downloaded 1.2.12.

- Uploaded the "upload" directory.

- Renamed it.

- Sucessfully ran install.php

- Created and uploaded config.php.

- Tried to start the forum.

Now I got this error message:

There is no valid language pack 'English' installed. Please reinstall a language of that name.

The lang/english directory is on my server.

Could someone please help me!

2 Reply by Mark

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Re: No valid language pack

is the lang/enlish language the one that is set in the main options?
you will prob have to check this in database if you cant access your forums.

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3 Reply by Smartys (edited by Smartys 2006-09-15 10:43)

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Re: No valid language pack

is it English or english, because it should be English (note the capitalization)

4 Reply by Thort

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Re: No valid language pack

Thanks for your replies Mark and Smartys !

Mark wrote:

is the lang/enlish language the one that is set in the main options?
you will prob have to check this in database if you cant access your forums.

I can't access the forum, so I looked in the database.
The default language is set to English in the config part of the database.

http://thort.se/storage/forum/punbb/database_default_language.jpg

Also looked in register.php. What about these lines?

// Load the register.php language file
require PUN_ROOT.'lang/'.$pun_user['language'].'/register.php';

I don't know php, but nothing is said about English here.



Smartys wrote:

is it English or english, because it should be English (note the capitalization)

As you see, it reads English with capitalized e.


What more can I do to make my forum start up?

5 Reply by Paul

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Re: No valid language pack

Thort wrote:

The lang/english directory is on my server.

If the directory is actually "lang/english" (small "e") try renaming it to lang/English (capital "E")

6 Reply by Thort (edited by Thort 2006-09-15 13:30)

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Re: No valid language pack

Thanks Paul, for your reply !

Paul wrote:

If the directory is actually "lang/english" (small "e") try renaming it to lang/English (capital "E")

The directory name reads: lang/English. Capital E.

What more can I do?

7 Reply by Paul

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Re: No valid language pack

Have you tried uploading a fresh copy of the language files just in case they got mangled during the original upload.

8 Reply by Thort

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Re: No valid language pack

Paul wrote:

Have you tried uploading a fresh copy of the language files just in case they got mangled during the original upload.

FANTASTIC  smile

This was the solution!

I downloaded a fresh copy of PunBB 1.2.12.

Then uploaded the lang directory and its subdirectories.

And no, my forum starts!

Thank You Paul !