I am seeking a better understanding for using variation sites for multi-lingual pages. We would like to take an existing page and make it the source for a variation hierarchy. The issue I am running into is when I attempt to create a variation label, I am present "Variation Root must be a publishing site". I was under the impression that as long as "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" was active on site collection settings this would be possible.
I have done testing with new pages built off the publishing template successful, but I would like to convert an existing page collection to include variations in an alternate language.
Thank you