gettext does not translate

Hello! I wrote this skript, but gettext returns only the english string. I could not find a bug at bugs.php.net, so I think I forgot something. I have Debian Linux, PHP Version 4.3.4 and Gettext 0.14.1 (PHP and Gettext as debian pakages) gettext.php in /var/www/gymbay/ <?php // Set language to German setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); // Specify location of translation tables bindtextdomain("messages", "i18n"); // Choose domain textdomain("messages"); // Translation is (should) looking for in i18n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo now // Print a test message echo gettext("Welcome to My PHP Application"); // Or use the alias _() for gettext() echo _("Have a nice day"); // Output: // Welcome to My PHP ApplicationHave a nice day ?> messages.po # translation of messages.po to german # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER. # Christian Dávid <christian-david@web.de>, 2004. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: messages\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2004-09-11 15:50+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2004-09-11 15:52+0200\n" "Last-Translator: Christian Dávid <christian-david@web.de>\n" "Language-Team: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "X-Generator: KBabel 1.3.1\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n" #: gettext.php:15 msgid "Welcome to My PHP Application" msgstr "Willkommen zu meiner PHP Anwendung" #: gettext.php:18 msgid "Have a nice day" msgstr "Wir wünschen Ihnen einen schönen Tag" and the "messages.mo" is in /var/www/gymbay/i18n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/ Thank you!