Some weird problems of a newbie

helmi

Hi,

i'm just setting up my first form with vanilla 2. Basically everything went well and the forums up and running. That's been the good news ;-)

Some problems arise now and most of them could most likely be solved by better reading but i really dug through the docs and couldn't find anything:

1. Where's that switch to activate the pretty URLs? I got Apache (2.x) running with php via fast_cgi, mod_rewrite is enabled, the .htaccess is in place but i miss the switch (or config line) in vanilla to say "hey lets get started with these nasty nice urls"

2. where can i customize the default theme? I basically like it but i'd want some other colors and probably put in some rounded corners here and there. In the themes/default folder i can't find any piece of html/template stuff. get it:



3. I can't seem to get Twitter and Facebook Connect to work. I've setup applications on both systems and activated everything in vanilly (of course copied the keys and secrets as described). When i click on the twitter symbol next to the login button as a guest i get a popup with a login form of my own forum with the social buttons aside (not anything from twitter like it should and like its working here at vf.org) and when i click facebook i get to facebook, do the login and then get messages that tell me Provider and UniqueID are missing and the connection data has not been verified.

EDIT: the same goes for google login. It just opens the forums login form in a popup.

Is this probably due to the apps on twitter and facebook just been created? Do they need some hours until they work or am i just missing anything else?

Any help is appreciated!

Many Thanks!
Frank

greenlizard

I might be able to help you a little. You can edit the theme's CSS by going to applications, dashboard, design, then the style.css is the main CSS file.

I can't help you with the pretty URLs... mine worked out of the box without me changing anything.

As far as the social media login plugins... I don't think I can't help you much there either. Mine work, except for one issue which I won't get into, but all in all, they do log me in.

Hopefully someone else can help you out!

cdavid

1. Where's that switch to activate the pretty URLs? I got Apache (2.x) running with php via fast_cgi, mod_rewrite is enabled, the .htaccess is in place but i miss the switch (or config line) in vanilla to say "hey lets get started with these nasty nice urls"

2. where can i customize the default theme? I basically like it but i'd want some other colors and probably put in some rounded corners here and there. In the themes/default folder i can't find any piece of html/template stuff. get it:

3. I can't seem to get Twitter and Facebook Connect to work. I've setup applications on both systems and activated everything in vanilly (of course copied the keys and secrets as described). When i click on the twitter symbol next to the login button as a guest i get a popup with a login form of my own forum with the social buttons aside (not anything from twitter like it should and like its working here at vf.org) and when i click facebook i get to facebook, do the login and then get messages that tell me Provider and UniqueID are missing and the connection data has not been verified.

EDIT: the same goes for google login. It just opens the forums login form in a popup.

1. conf/config.php -- you should have a $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = FALSE; -- make it $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

2. @greenlizard ... that is not that indicated to do because you will have to adjust your theme and overwrite with every update of Vanilla. Better look here: http://vanillaforums.org/page/ThemeQuickStart

3. Haven't tried those. can't help.

/cd

helmi

Looks like Facebook, Twitter and stuff all depend on pretty URLs. If this is fixed they all work fine.

And thanks for the ThemeQuickStart Guide. I'll read that later.

cdavid

@Todd -- Is it true that Facebook & co. logins depend on pretty URL-s?

/cd