Site name is not changing in

By johnnny83 on 18 Jan 2017 at 22:49 UTC

When I change the site name in admin/config/system/site-information it has no effect on the site name between the title tags in html.html.twig. It always shows "Drupal" as the site name.

I'm using the Basic theme with the same implementation as in the core themes:

<title>{{ head_title|safe_join(' | ') }}</title>

I already checked the translations and the site name is also not hard coded in settings.php

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pixelsweatshop commented 19 January 2017 at 00:59

Did you try flushing yo cache?

about 1 million times :D

johnnny83 commented 19 January 2017 at 01:01

about 1 million times :D

Same here

hadzhikostov commented 19 January 2017 at 09:36

Same problem. Translation shows correctly but in the default language it stays "Drupal".
Clean install 8.2.5

Edit: playing with languages - adding, changing, deleting default language several times and clearing cache every time worked out for me, now the site name is changing correctly through /config/system/site-information

BUT: Anything different from "Drupal" as site name is not displayed in the core "Contact" module and as a result mails sent through site contact forms go to Spam folder because sender name and email appear empty...

Same problem

Suvikki commented 25 January 2017 at 15:46

I had the same problem with site name showing "Drupal".

Changing default language to English, deleting the other language, clearing cache, changing site name, adding the other language and setting it back to default worked for me. Now my site name shows correctly (and is the sender name in a contact form).

Yeah, this worked for me!

johnnny83 commented 26 January 2017 at 18:35

Yeah, this worked for me! Strangely they name didn't change after switching back to English and deleting German, but only after adding German again AND activating it...

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strony internetowe commented 27 January 2017 at 19:40

Value językwa selected in the panel is important, because the value of publishing your article, without this you will not have a visible article if you do not set a translation,

Thanks! Your solution gave me

jeroen.b commented 15 June 2017 at 08:09

Thanks! Your solution gave me an idea.
The easier solution is changing the system.site.yml config, and changing to the langcode to "en". Then import the config and everything should be fine.

This did the trick, thanks!

bmunslow commented 21 July 2017 at 12:07

This did the trick, thanks!

Same problem - solved

hhigel commented 2 August 2017 at 12:58

This trick worked for me as well. Problem still exists under Drupal version 8.3.5.

The problem is the language you started in

reptilex commented 5 August 2017 at 07:51

I finaly finished getting to the bottom of this issue. Most times it is due to choosing a different language than english as the standard language. Somehow then the settings of the website are ignored. To correct this I had to overwrite a value in the database. But BEWARE the number beside the "NAMEOFYOURWEBSITE" has to be as long as that string, otherwise you might break the whole thing!!!! BACKUP First!!!!

UPDATE config SET data = 'a:1:{s:4:"name";s:17:"NAMEOFYOURWEBSITE"}' WHERE name = 'system.site' AND collection = 'language.en';

Maybe it helps someone else.

I am amazed....

tammo commented 6 November 2017 at 14:25

... that changing the website name in another language than " en" should require fiddling with the database.

Is there really no other solution? I ran into this several times: I developed websites in NL and some changed their name and website email address. Changing this through the UI turned out to be impossible. I Now read that this is due to language NL (or any other language than EN).

Shouldn't this be considered to be a nasty bug?

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