This article outlines a practical suggestion for avoiding issues when using multiple languages in a site along with the Liferay platform’s staging feature. Following this suggestion will help prevent future staging publication failures.
Resolution
When utilizing multiple languages within a site, make sure to:
- Only use languages that have been defined within the site
- Errors may arise when the portal encounters content with a locale that is not defined on the site.
- e.g. If English and Spanish are the defined languages, and you’d like to remove English, make sure to remove all content in English.
- Even “small changes” Iike from en_US to en_GB will cause this issue so be careful with the web content that you use on the portal.
- Only use those languages for sites and content that are defined for the whole portal as well
- e.g. There should not be a site that utilizes Chinese when the only languages defined for the portal are English and Spanish.
- Set and use exactly the same languages between the live and staged site. If there are discrepancies between the languages in the two sites, the publish may fail.
- Even if you don't use every language in your site content, the publish process won't start if your live site has more or less languages available.
- e.g. It is a common oversight when the staging portal uses the default language locales and only the live portal was configured to use only the needed ones.
- Ensure that the staged site and live portal use the exact same languages.