Django translation creates po and mo files, but fails in translation and displays translation placeholders

Question

I am using Django 1.6.5 with virtualenv (Vitrual Environment) and apache2

I have following settings.py structure:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'tr_TR'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME = 'wm_lang'
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    '/home/mustafa/python/myproject/locale'
)

USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True

LANGUAGES = (
    ('tr', _(u'Türkçe')),
    ('en', _(u'English')),
)

I have a template file looks like that

{% extends .... %}
{% load i18n %}

{% block content %}
    <h2>{% trans 'Hosgeldin' %}</h2>
....
....

I run following to create po files

django-admin.py makemessages  --locale=tr --locale=en

which creates following files

/home/mustafa/python/myproject/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
/home/mustafa/python/myproject/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po

I Apply translation strings so my django.po translation files look like that

en:

#: templates/websitesi/index.html:6
msgid "Hosgeldin"
msgstr "Welcome, that is a test"

tr:

#: templates/websitesi/index.html:6
msgid "Hosgeldin"
msgstr "Hoşgeldiniz, bu bir deneme"

Then I compile them with

django-admin.py compilemessages

and django creates django.mo files near django.po files for both languages.

But when I visit the page, I see Hosgeldin (translation placeholder) instead of translated text.

Writing {{ LANGUAGE_CODE }} to template displays selected language code. When my address is someadress/en, language code displayed as en...

What am I missing?

UPDATE: This is a section of my root urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
)

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/docs/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('websitesi.views',
    url(r'^$', 'index', name='index'),  # This is my home page
                         ....
                         ....

Then I go to my_local_server/ or my_local_server/tr or my_local_server/en to test but it all fails in translation.

When I go to admin via my_local_server/tr/admin or my_local_server/en/admin, django trqnslations works just fine.

Answer 1

Finally, it turns out to be a typo, as expected.

In settings.py

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    '/home/mustafa/python/myproject/locale'
)

But Django expects LOCALE_PATHS to be a tuple, so adding a comma solved the issue...

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    '/home/mustafa/python/myproject/locale',
)