mobile theme does not work

vnforums_net

Hi,

I just put together a forum www.vnforums.net & apparently the mobile theme does not work, I see the site on PC & ipad while both our android phones display "bonk something funny happened" curiously, my buddy's iphone does the same while both our ipads work just fine displaying the native vanilla theme though all three devices are running ios6 & my ipad often displays the mobile sites of commercial websites...

Does anyone out there has the same problem, is this a general problem on some server or is something fishy about my installation?
I'm hosted by netfirms & installed vanilla through netfirms' link to simplescripts.

Thx, Ben

vrijvlinder

@vnforums_net

You need to create a Folder called Smarty and another called compile and put them in the cache folder .

vnforums_net

@vrijvlinder said:
vnforums_net

You need to create a Folder called Smarty and another called compile and put them in the cache folder .

Where & in order to do what? I never installed any theme, just used the theme that comes with vanilla natively.

vrijvlinder

If you installed your forum app using simple scripts or something like that , these folders are missing and need to be created in order for the mobile themes to work.

Just Create a folder, call it Smarty, then another folder called compile and put it in Smarty folder you just made, then put it in the cache folder of your installation.

forum/cache

vnforums_net

ok, @ my hosts site there is a "file manager" root>public_html>vanilla>cache>smarty>compile (empty)

so the folders are there, I didn't have to put them in, are these the folders you're talking about?
in root>public_html>cache there were no smarty/compile, I added them, still "bonk" on the phone :-(

vrijvlinder, thx for your interest & help, keep it comin ;-)

peregrine

Instead of guessing, do what the documentation says when you see bonk.

and get the true error message.

But you probably need 777 permissions on the folders. Or you could search for smarty compile.

vrijvlinder

are these the folders you're talking about?

yea that's them

get the true error message.

Switch on debugger or debug mode to get the full error message or ask your host to look or indicate where the error console is.

the error I get is an internal misconfiguration server error message .

vnforums_net

I found a cgi_error_log in the /stats folder:

20130310T164630: vnforumsnet.netfirms.com/ss_2067929_ctga_install.php chmod: cannot access library/vendors/markdown/PHP': No such file or directory chmod: cannot accessMarkdown': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access Extra': No such file or directory chmod: cannot accessReadme.text': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access vanilla/library/vendors/markdown/PHP': No such file or directory chmod: cannot accessMarkdown': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access Extra': No such file or directory chmod: cannot accessReadme.text': No such file or di

Does that tell you guys anything?

hgtonight

If those files do exist, you can try changing the permissions on those 3 files to 777 (read, write, and execute for user, group, and other).

If they don't exist... I am not sure XD.

vrijvlinder

@peregrine said:
Instead of guessing, do what the documentation says when you see bonk.

awe ! but, that would put my Crystal Ball OUT OF BUSINESS

vrijvlinder

look in library /vendors/markdown to see if the file is there.... remember to change permissions on the file as well as the directory folder they are in..

peregrine

If you don't see the files in vendors - you should just do a clean new install of the source code. If you see the files change the permissions to make sure the web owner can read them.

did you contact your host.

clear your cache....

remove the .ini files from cache

and I think you read and should do this.... or you will be getting all kinds of guesses...

http://vanillaforums.org/docs/errors

and between what you have as well as the following

I've not seen this with standard bonk errors...

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.