Can't find config.yml file

grl570810

Hi All I'm new to WordOps; I am currently running a POC server to test the possibility of migrating my current hosting to this environment. I'm working through all the helpful documentation and reviving my long-lost *nix skills with a degree of success but one thing has got me stumped so far. Hope someone can help with this:

I want my default WP site locale to be en_AU rather than en_US. I found this article: which suggests I just need to edit the config.yml file on the system. The problem is that I cannot find this file anywhere; sudo find . -name config.yml from the root of the file system returns nothing. Where should this file be? If there really isn't one on the system can I just create one, and if so where should I place it and does anyone have a template I can use?

Thanks in Advance,
Graham

grl570810

The link didn't paste? The article I was trying to point at was https://docs.wordops.net/how-to/wp-language/

corus9

if it's not there then create a new one

cd ~/.wp-cli

touch config.yml

grl570810

Hi @corus9

So I did that (I had to create the ~/wp-cli directory as it didn't exist). But when I create a new wp site I still get an en_US install, not an en_AU one. What am I missing? Here's a view of the config.yml file I created - is that maybe not formatted correctly and if so can anyone point me at a correct layout for the file?

Thanks,
Graham

corus9

may be it got deprecated, you can open a issue in the github but the easy solution would be using wp language core install en_AU --activate --allow-root after normal installation

grl570810

corus9
It looks like I'm stuck with that solution, can't get my wp cli to download the en_AU core. Just a note to anyone who has found this thread and needs to do the same: after running the above command to change the core language you also need to run
sudo chown -c -R www-data:www-data languages
as the wp cli sets the owner as root and consequently translations will be unable to update.
Maybe the owner of the original FAQ article could update it to include that?

portofacil

The correct location probably is /root/.wp-cli.

That's what works for me, at least. YMMV.

grl570810

portofacil
Unfortunately that location didn't work either.

grl570810

Once again, for anyone who is suffering from the same issue as I am in being unable to create a config.yml file that will change the locale of the WordPress download I have found a hack that is (IMHO) better than changing the locale post install with its associated permission change.
Simply edit the site_functions.py file at line 275 where the wp core download command is issued to include the --locale= option, so for example I edited mine to read:
wp core download --locale=en_AU --allow-root
My site_functions.py was located at /opt/wo/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wo/cli/plugins, YMMV
Obviously, this has to be repeated each time WordOps updates but as a one line change it's easy to do so.