By jvincher on

OK. I am confused. I installed Drupal 4.5, it's working smoothly but I am running into some issues I cannot explain.

1. I enabled "forums" in the list of modules, created a vocabulary, assigned this vocabulary to the "forum topic" node and created various terms as well. When I look at this vocabulary in admin, it all looks fine and the terms are lined up correctly as well. I created a node, assigned this note to a term in my forum vocabulary and that works fine.

When I click "forums" however in one of the menus, it keeps giving me the "No Forums defined" message. What am I missing here?

2. I downloaded a drupal 4.5 theme, unzipped it and uploaded it to the /includes/themes directory on my server. It's listed, just like any of the standard themes but for some reason, it doesn't list as one of the available themes in admin. Any ideas here?

Any feedback is appreciated, I'm pumped about what Drupal could potentially mean to the community I am running (30.000+ members) but I'm a bit frustrated with the (I assume) learning curve here.

Thanks!

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jvincher commented

This shouldn't have been that difficult...

To solve question 1 in Drupal 4.5, go to "administer, settings, forum" and make sure "forum vocabulary" is set to the forum vocabulary you just created.

That's also where you set forum containers to achieve a result like the Drupal forum.

Question 2 is still open. Any ideas why I would not see the uploaded theme in the list of available themes?

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jvincher commented

I'm getting good at answering my own questions, here.

I noticed that the greenthing theme download misses the theme file. Anyone have any ideas where I can find the full and usable download?

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dries commented

There is no includes/themes directory.

Did you enable the theme on the theme administration page?

Did you try uploading another theme to see if the problem is specific to that theme?

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jvincher commented

I meant the /themes directory, where the other themes are as well.

I did try enabling it but it's not listed. I checked the archive and it seemed the theme file (x.theme) was missing. It's cool, I moved on and am in the process of developing my own theme.

Thanks for your reply, though.

Jan

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chrisada commented

It's been a month, and you might have solved it, but just in case..

greenthing uses PHPTemplate, and doesn't need any xxxx.theme, like it used to be the case in Drupal 4.4. However, it needs the PHPTemplate theme engine to be installed, in order to work.

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jvincher commented

I did solve it...by using a different template ;)

Thanks anyway as this information might still be helpful for others.