TYPO3: how to recover a deleted language?

Question

In the table pages_language_overlay I can see that there are entrys with sys_language_uid = 1. But there is no language if i look under list on page with id=0. How can I recover the language?

The problem is that I tried to create a new language with the id = 1 on a copy of the project. Then I had some problems because TYPO3 didn't get it managed it right with realURL (see here). What can I do?

Answer 1

You will have to create an additional language record for your website:

• in backend: activate the list module
• select the root node of the whole page tree (id=0)
• check if there is already a block "Website Language" with a record in it
• if not: click on "Create new record" (little icon with green plus close to top of window)
• select System Records -> Website Language
• select the name, ISO code and flag for your language
• save

Now make sure that your new language record has id=1. If the ID is higher your autoincrement value in table sys_language was not zero (possibly because you have created and deleted a language earlier). In this case you will have to modify sys_language manually (export to SQL, modify SQL accordingly, delete table and reimport).

Cheers, Jörg.