Installing Themes: "Bonk"

minejames1

Hi There,
I am on a fresh install of Vanilla Forums, with nothing changed. I extracted the theme into my themes by FTP, and went back to my Vanilla Forums admin panel. In the themes section I activated it, and went to my forums. I got this error, until I changed back to the default theme. This happens with any theme I install!

Thanks,
James Allison!

whu606

You can see what the actual problem is if you get past the 'Bonk' message.

You need to access the Vanilla/conf folder on your webserver, and

if you are using vanilla >= 2.0.18 Put

$Configuration['Garden']['Debug'] = TRUE; `

and if its < 2.0.18 put

`$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';`

in your config.php file.

This will give you a detailed error message, rather than the 'Bonk' one. Once you have that, either it will help you see what to do, or else you can post another question, asking specifically about the error.

x00

I think the problem is you copied whu606 and he left `` in his code block, which are related to markdown, but not parsed within pre tags.

Delete that line and insert:

$Configuration['Garden']['Debug']  = TRUE;
$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

Mupetz

After changing a theme, try deleting .ini files from the /cache folder. and tpl.php ones from cache/Smarty/compile

Then refresh your forum

whu606

You can see what the actual problem is if you get past the 'Bonk' message.

You need to access the Vanilla/conf folder on your webserver, and

if you are using vanilla >= 2.0.18 Put

$Configuration['Garden']['Debug'] = TRUE; `

and if its < 2.0.18 put

`$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';`

in your config.php file.

This will give you a detailed error message, rather than the 'Bonk' one. Once you have that, either it will help you see what to do, or else you can post another question, asking specifically about the error.

minejames1

Okay, this is what it says now I have put that line in the config:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /mnt/stor3-wc2-dfw1/485991/www.jaycraft.co/web/content/vanilla/conf/config.php on line 42

This is line 42 of my config:
$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Content'] = 'a:6:{i:0;s:13:"MessageModule";i:1;s:7:"Notices";i:2;s:21:"NewConversationModule";i:3;s:19:"NewDiscussionModule";i:4;s:7:"Content";i:5;s:3:"Ads";}';

x00

I think the problem is you copied whu606 and he left `` in his code block, which are related to markdown, but not parsed within pre tags.

Delete that line and insert:

$Configuration['Garden']['Debug']  = TRUE;
$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

minejames1

Okay, I got the error report to come up now. It says this:
http://pastie.org/3433651

sahotataran

create a folder vanilla/cache/Smarty/compile - this folder was deleted so you need to create this folder and this will be working again

or if this folder is there then u need to change its permissions to writable - error states it was not able to write into it

minejames1

sahotataran said:
create a folder vanilla/cache/Smarty/compile - this folder was deleted so you need to create this folder and this will be working again

or if this folder is there then u need to change its permissions to writable - error states it was not able to write into it

Thank you very much! The problem is now resolved.