When the language (say, Spanish) is set to Live, but the main page for Spanish is in Draft or non-existing, the users with Spanish language set in their browsers will encounter a 404 error when accessing the website main page.
How to reproduce?
Create a new language, say, Spanish. Set the Live checkbox to True.
Change the language of your browser to Spanish.
Delete the local website's django_language cookie.
Navigate to your site without specifying the page (so http://127.0.0.1:8000/, not http://127.0.0.1:8000/en)
Translate the English main page to Spanish, but keep the Spanish page in Draft
Repeat step 4.
Expected result:
The website falls back to default language (English)
Issue summary
When the language (say, Spanish) is set to Live, but the main page for Spanish is in Draft or non-existing, the users with Spanish language set in their browsers will encounter a 404 error when accessing the website main page.
How to reproduce?
django_languagecookie.http://127.0.0.1:8000/, nothttp://127.0.0.1:8000/en)Expected result: The website falls back to default language (English)
Actual result: 404 error
Technical details