By hbar on

Hi,

I'm very new to Drupal and am slowly trying to build a site on my local machine. Today I downloaded and installed a bunch of Themes, so I could check them out. When I made one of the new Themes 'Default' and saved the configuration, most of my site vanished! The content block still appears, but most of the links have disappeared, including the 'Administer' section (where I could change the Theme back). Unfortunately, I can't remember which Theme did this.

Is there any way I can reset my site to use the default Theme, if I'm unable to access the Administer pages?

I'm really not sure where to look. A configuration file? The database? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Thanks.

Drupal 5.1, MAMP 1.4.1, Mac OS X 10.4.8

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

znation’s picture

znation commented

The link might have disappeared, but did the entire page? Try going directly to the "admin/themes" URL on your site (by typing it into your browser's address bar) and see if the page will load. If it does, you can use that to switch themes.

If the theme admin page won't even load when you go there directly, the theme is probably causing PHP to halt execution, so the page never finishes generating. You can try to remove the offending theme by removing the files for the theme(s) you installed... they can't load if the files don't exist.

benjaminlhaas’s picture

benjaminlhaas commented

can you view the theme page if you go to the it directly? that is, can you get there by typing http://www.yoursite.com/admin/build/themes in the url bar?

hbar’s picture

hbar commented

That did the trick!

Thanks a lot for the speedy response. :) And thanks also to znation for the 1st reply.