django-rosetta file is read only

Question

I am getting the following message at the top of my rosetta admin page:

File is read-only: download the file when done editing!

This never used to be there before, and I'm unsure at what point this started showing up since we've had a lot of dev changes recently and haven't had any text to translate. The outcome is that any translation changes we make do not take effect in the admin section after we click save and translate next block (ie. These changes do not save at all). Which kinda makes sense since the "file" is read only.

I've tried setting the .po and .mo file's permissions to 777 but the message remains. Even after resetting the server etc.

My question is: has anyone come across this issue? What file is it that is read-only? How do I set it to writeable? Or is something else at play here?

Answer 1

I solved the issue.

I was using Filezilla to change the permissions of the files. Whilst these changes appeared to have taken effect, they didn't actually make a difference. So I jumped into the terminal and used chmod to give the appropriate permissions to both the django.mo and django.po files (in this case I used chmod g+w <filename> to give group write access) and it worked.

Hopefully this helps someone else in the future.

Answer 2

As said before, you need to change the permissions. You need to restart the server also.