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Anyone???

Thanks for your reply Kris. I've blown everything away to do a simple test, so dropped all databases, uninstalled WAMP, and deleted the entire WAMP folder. I then reinstalled a fresh WAMP, created a blank MySQL database and installed drupal 6.20. I then installed the Zen 2.0 theme and created my sub theme using the starter kit and followed the instructions to the letter. I get the exact same result. I've made sure I'm allocating at least one block to one of the side bars but still no dice.

I tried this exact same process using Zen 1.2 and it works no problem. I tried it again with Zen 2.1 and it doesnt work. Would there be anything different on my system? Im running Win7 64bit, WAMP 2.1d x64 with MySQL 5.1.53, PHP 5.2.11, and Apache 2.0.63. As mentioned above everything is a clean install.

I've attached the contents of my \sites\all\Themes directory for you, which is only the Zen theme and my sub theme. The sub theme i'm using is what i've created fresh from the Zen STARTERKIT folder, just renamed to isaw, nothing else done except for allocating some blocks to the side bar. Thanks very much for looking into this for me.

Looks like it's definitely something to do with my setup, I just tried installing the contributed zen sub-theme Easybreeze (http://drupal.org/project/easybreeze) and columns dont work for me on that either. I might look into setting up a debain VM instead of using WAMP. Thanks for your help.

What version of PHP and Apache are you running in your debain VM?

Ok so i decided to setup a hosted sand box to play with as a quick way to remove my drupal site from my WAMP server, and frustratingly i'm still having no luck with the sidebars. If you have time can you please check out my setup?

This is my test site: http://drupaltest.web44.net/

I've just got Garland on there at the moment but if you turn on the ISAW sub theme you can see the issue.

I have the themes installed straight under the themes directory rather than the sites/all/themes directory because i couldnt get them to appear in the themes list under administration using the sites/all/themes directory. Not sure why that is.

Please let me know if you can see something I'm doing wrong.

So i've set my base_url in the settings.php file, and have tried to enable clean URLs but I can't get it to pass the test. I've played with lots of settings in the .htaccess file with no luck. The apache server is definitely using the .htaccess file because when I put some garbage text in the file my site gave me a 500 error as stated in the clean URLs handbook.

In the FAQ of the web host there's this note about the .htaccess file:

All our servers support .htaccess by default. Usage is unrestricted so you can put any rules or PHP flags to .htaccess file
But, there is one thing you should know about .htaccess and mod_rewrite rules:
We use virtual user home directory paths, so you may get errors when trying to set up search engine friendly URL's. All you need to do to fix this issue is add the below line to the very top of your .htaccess file:
RewriteBase /
Make sure this line is placed before all the other rules (on the first line of .htaccess file). That's it. Now your rewrite rules will be working fine.

So i did that but I still cant get the clean URLs test to pass. My site is installed in the root directory so I don't need to set that up in the .htaccess file. The only other thing I've tried is to put a / in front of the index.php file as suggested in the clean URLs handbook, but still no luck. I'm also running a manual cron and clearing the cache after each change to the .htaccess file.

Are clean URLs required to resolve the problem I'm having with the side bar content?

Thanks very much for all your help by the way!

I set everything to 777 when i was playing with the .htaccess file, assuming that the higher the file permissions the more likely things will work of course. Is there any documentation regarding the appropriate file permissions to use?

Also are you able to give me some examples of hosts you've had success with in the past that I might be able to try instead of 000webhost.com just in case there's something similar in there setup to my WAMP setup that's affecting the side bar content. The lower the cost the better at the moment, 000webhost.com is the only free one I've come across at this stage.