Cannot change theme on vanilla 2.1.5

TheCrafter

Hello guys,

Everything were working properly but all of a sudden I cannot change theme. My theme is stuck to Bitter Sweet theme and it won't change.

I try changing it from dashboard but nothing happens. Can you point me at some direction to look for the answer?

Bleistivt

Enable debugging and post any error messages you get when trying to change the theme here.

Have you changed file permissions recently? the config.php has to be writable by php

peregrine

how did you try changing theme? what did you click? what did you press?

is your cache/Smarty/compile folder writeable?

can you still disable plugins?

you should know how to troubleshoot.

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/

you might want to take some time and read through these

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20231/how-to-become-somewhat-adept-at-modifying-vanilla-to-meet-your-needs-for-free

and the

http://vanillaforums.org/categories/tutorials

and

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/

also:

this might help

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25975/cannot-apply-themes

TheCrafter

Well I tried everything (especially at this: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25975/cannot-apply-themes )

and the only thing that worked is changind themes manually from config.php. But changing them from the dashboard still doesn't work!

Bleistivt

Have you tried this:

@Bleistivt said:
Enable debugging and post any error messages you get when trying to change the theme here.

R_J

Sometimes they are changed but you do not see it at once because of APC or Opcache

TheCrafter

@Bleistivt said:
Have you tried this:

I cannot enable or disable plugins either.

Bleistivt

With debugging I meant adding $Configuration['Debug'] = TRUE; to your config.php (it's in the article peregrine posted http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/)

But if you can't enable or disable plugins either, your config.php is not writable or gets opcached.