activated a new theme, can't get to dashboard

cardc

www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla

I can't get to the dashboard once I activated even though i'm still logged in. Anyone have any idea's of how I can get to the dashboard to change the theme? As is anything I click on brings me back to the same page.

Thanks
David

cardc

Is there a way to change the theme via ftp or is there a dashboard url? There's no working dashboard link
BTW, its the bootstrap theme if it makes any difference

Thanks

x00

there should be a dropdown link to the right in the nav bar, it is in there.

x00

you can also point to http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/dashboard

cardc

Top right hand corner is my name with a tiny down arrow. highlighting it doesn't bring down a menu. clicking on it does nothing.
Tried firefox,IE and chrome

cardc

you can also point to http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/dashboard

this url brings me to the wordpress login screen

I tried this url but I get a 404 error

http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/dashboard

x00

do this
http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/?p=dashboard

you haven't got rewrite urls on.

Note that theme (which I haven't used) has specific instructions about updating jQuery. Not something I’d recommend generally certainly you want to save the previous version of jquery before doing this.

Anyway if theme is working and you have the right permissions, the dropdown should work.

cardc

Tried
http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/?p=dashboard
but get this now

Thanks for your quick responses

David

How do I turn rewrites on?

x00

Sorry I'm doing this off the top of my head should be

http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/?p=dashboard/settings

cardc

That worked

Thanks for the great support!!

David

x00

Only turn rewites on if your sever rule are working (e.g .htaccess). you should be able to replace
http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/?p=uri with http://www.emptynosesyndrome.org/vanilla/uri if so where uri is your location such as discussions

You can set it in conf/config.php

$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

you can set a theme like so

$Configuration['Garden']['Theme'] = default';

x00

If the bootstrap theme isn't workign you should talk to @kasperisager

cardc

New to this, how do I know if my server rule is working? I do know where to edit the .htaccess file and config.php

Kasper

Oh the joys of not reading the installation instructions! The Bootstrap menus won't work unless you carefully follow the README - Vanilla 2.0 ships with jQuery 1.something-that-isn't-7.2 and the menues therefore won't work unless you manually update the core jQuery library to 1.7.2, as specified in the installation instruction. I see that you changed the theme though - that's an acceptable workaround I guess :-)

In any event, if you decide to take the Bootstrap theme for a spin feel to send me a PM or start a new discussion if you encounter any problems along your way!