Get 500 (Internal Server Error) after changing language (both front- and backen)

[t68]

Got a totally fresh VM 2.0.26 and 2.5.17 install I´m trying to set up from scratch. But I run into trouble when I try to install Swedish language on it.
I have installed the default joomla languagepack for swedish on the main joomla install. I have downloaded and unpacked the swedish language pack for VM2 and manually copied the frontend files to: /language/sv-SE/ and the admin files to administrator/language/sv-SE/.

But when I activate Swedish for front- and backend i get an 500 (internal server error) when i browse to shop frontend and in the backend I get this error one some pages while some work ok.

Have tried clearing cache and switching templates but the problem prevails.

Thank´s for any help with this!

[t68]

Update: after adding swedish as option for multilingual shop it seems to work. But this seems a bit weird though. I run another VM install where swedish works without having to activate this option (I just run swedish as joomla default language for frontend and backend).
Any thoughts on this?

[jjk]

I'm not shure, but maybe you had this problem because you didn't use the Joomla Extension Manager to install the swedish VirtueMart language pack (the same you use to install a component or plugin), so Joomla didn't recognize it. If you just copy the language files into it's folders, I think the swedish language VM2 database tables won't be created automatically.

[t68]

Thanks for your reply! You're probably right. Tried installing the Swedish VM language with the joomla install. But got a error message saying the installation file was outdated (or something like that, cannot remember the exact words), so then I moved the files manually with ftp.

So do you think the right tables has been created now by activating the multilingual setting? Can I  deactivate and it will still work?

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[jjk]

If you use only Swedish on your website, you don't need to activate VM multilanguage. VM2 should pick the Joomla default site language as the primary VM language. If you add a new product, check with phpMyAdmin or a similar tool if the product information is stored in the correct xxxxx_virtuemart_products_sv_se table.