My Vanilla forums will not work on a mobile.

DenisS

Is there a fix for this my mobile is Android don't work get "Bonk" my mate's is I phone the same. I have read so many things but they all seem to go off in a tangent. Google says robots.txt maybe be the problem I have tride a few but they don't work. Is there some code somewhere to paste in the body?

vrijvlinder

You mean just create dir in cache with nothing in them?

Yes nothing in them they get populated automatic, the folder just needs to be there.

so

folder 1 inside cache, you name it Smarty

folder 2 inside Smarty , you name it compile

then presto!!! it works...

DavidShine

i wasn't able to find info about these folders not being there and having to add them, seems like such a common problem that it should be a requirement to create them or at the very least people should be alerted to check for them. is simple scripts to blame for this? who forgot to put those in ?

vrijvlinder

See if this info helps

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/171195/#Comment_171195

have you tried implementing any themes? do they work ? bonk can be anything

DenisS

Thanks for your answer, vrivlinder
To explain, I'm working on 7 expats forums for a North East Thai area. all work on laptops / desktops and 6 give a bonk error one gives this error, Oh by the way i'm not great at code but i can get by:

Fatal Error in Smarty.trigger_error();
Smarty error: the $compile_dir '/home3/hannahas/public_html/korat-expatsforum/cache/Smarty/compile' does not exist, or is not a directory.
The error occurred on or near: /home3/hannahas/public_html/korat-expatsforum/library/vendors/Smarty-2.6.25/libs/Smarty.class.php

I'm trying to locate this now. But looking at it it looks like a differnt error Than just a mobile one.

businessdad

As the message says, you must make sure that you have a cache/Smarty/compile directory in your Vanilla folder, and that such directory is writable.

If you don't have that directory, just create it and set write permissions on it. That should solve the error.

DenisS

I have checked the dir is there to make sure i over wrote it. But>" that such directory is writable???? and set write permissions on it" ?? not sure what this means.
My son who used to the coding has disapeared in a beer bottle so i'm left to learn to part of the forums, coding which i'm having to learn it's only been two weeks So i need all the help i can get, Cheers a 66 year old expat from England!

vrijvlinder

Ok your problem is that you need to create a folder in cache called Smarty then another one in that folder called compile.

does not exist

This means you must create it

DenisS

You mean just create dir in cache with nothing in them? or copy the whole file in?
And both these dir in Cache?

Smarty-2.6.25

SmartyPlugins

vrijvlinder

You mean just create dir in cache with nothing in them?

Yes nothing in them they get populated automatic, the folder just needs to be there.

so

folder 1 inside cache, you name it Smarty

folder 2 inside Smarty , you name it compile

then presto!!! it works...

DenisS

thanks vrijvlinder, i'll try that and see how it goes

vrijvlinder

You mean just create dir in cache with nothing in them?

Yea no content in those folders

DavidShine

i wasn't able to find info about these folders not being there and having to add them, seems like such a common problem that it should be a requirement to create them or at the very least people should be alerted to check for them. is simple scripts to blame for this? who forgot to put those in ?