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I'm trying to automate the setup of Drupal multi-site installations as much as possible, we're using each multi-site for a separate country so would like the languages localised for each.

Is there a way to programmatically set the default language? It normally defaults to English. For a Spanish multi-site I would like to set it to Spanish.

The default language seems to be set in SelectLanguageForm.php .Since this happens so early on in the installation process, I can't use hook_form_alter() because no modules, profiles, or themes would be loaded at that point.

The default language will be defined basing on the subdomain where Drupal is going to be installed.

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  • did you tried with module drupal.org/project/domain_lang ? this is specifically for the multi sites, but you will also need to install the dependend modules.
    – Ales
    Commented Jan 17, 2021 at 14:25

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Reset to default
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drush config:set system.site default_langcode en
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  • thank you very very much. this has resolved my problem
    – Reza Bayat
    Commented Oct 25, 2021 at 13:51
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You should consider using Drush (or Bash running Drush) for that. With drush site:install you can set the default language via --locale.

The following command will (re)install Drupal using the expert install profile and set default language to Ukrainian.

drush si expert --locale=uk

Source: https://drushcommands.com/drush-9x/site/site:install/

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  • Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Currently I'm having issues getting Drush running on my Heroku server.
    – Neil Nand
    Commented Sep 18, 2018 at 23:37
  • @NeilNand – If you've started your project with Composer (p.e. github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project) then it's as easy as composer require drush/drush to include it and then cd web and ../vendor/bin/drush si expert --locale=uk.
    – leymannx
    Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 6:07
  • we're using composer and have Drush installed that way, works fine locally, but on Heroku it errors about not being able to fine MySQL which we've not sorted yet. Created a separate question about it on Stack Overflow but with no success as of yet. stackoverflow.com/questions/51858830/…
    – Neil Nand
    Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 10:34

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