# Changing default locale with incomplete locale file resulted in white page and error
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [4월 2, 2016, 11:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927 "2016-04-02T11:54:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Zoltan\_Szathmary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zoltan_Szathmary)
#### Post date: [4월 2, 2016, 11:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/1 "2016-04-02T11:54:12Z")
I wanted to change the locale of my discourse site from \_en to \_hu. When I did that in the admin settings / basic settings, the page came back white with a 404 error on the hu.js.
javascripts/locales/hu.js
Any recommendation how to set it back to english would be much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [4월 2, 2016, 12:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/2 "2016-04-02T12:30:29Z")
> [@Zoltan\_Szathmary](#):
>
> I wanted to change the locale of my discourse site from \_en to \_hu.
I can’t see `hu` as the available locale?
What language did you choose? Also, what’s the URL of your Discourse instance?
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### Author:  [@Zoltan\_Szathmary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zoltan_Szathmary)
#### Post date: [4월 2, 2016, 12:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/3 "2016-04-02T12:53:34Z")
The instance is [discourse.inepex.net](http://discourse.inepex.net/) .
I choose HU. There was a HU locale, without searching I just rolled down in the list and found it. (hu for hungarian of course)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [4월 2, 2016, 1:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/4 "2016-04-02T13:10:07Z")
Strange, I don’t see “HU” locale on my local Discourse instance, or here on meta.
Anyways to fix this issue, run these commands on your server:
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails c
SiteSetting.default_locale = 'en'
```
This should change your locale back to English.
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### Author:  [@Zoltan\_Szathmary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zoltan_Szathmary)
#### Post date: [4월 2, 2016, 1:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/5 "2016-04-02T13:13:22Z")
We will try it and notify you with the results, thanks for the help.
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### Author:  [@Zoltan\_Szathmary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zoltan_Szathmary)
#### Post date: [4월 4, 2016, 7:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/6 "2016-04-04T07:17:27Z")
Hello again!
It turned out that we here at my company created a test locale, but it wasn’t finished (not even started, per se), but we had a file remaining on the server that the discourse thought to be a valid locale file. That’s why I could find \_hu, even if it wasn’t finished on our side.
So the mistake was on our side as we didn’t cooperate and talk it through.
Still, it might pose a bug, as discourse didn’t know how to handle this situ but came back blank instead. Might be worth looking into.
Thanks for the help and the quick response, saved my day. Cheers!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 4, 2016, 7:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-locale-with-incomplete-locale-file-resulted-in-white-page-and-error/41927/7 "2016-04-04T07:22:56Z")