By jacob.vankley on
Ok, i installed a new theme on comicalcomics.com and loved it! It was so awesome that i decided to save a little bit of hosting space and delete all of the themes that were no longer needed, and unfortunately assumed that "engines" was a theme and deleted it with FTP. Of course, it wasn't a theme and i had to redownload drupal, and take out the "engines" folder. Now my "blocks" admin menu is completely blank (as jeevesbond refers to it: a white screen of death). Is there any way to fix this w/o completely restarting drupal?
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also, if this helps i'm
also, if this helps i'm using the theme nonzero.
I would re-upload
I would re-upload everything, not just engines, and if you can get in to admin, set your theme back to garland. And if you have a recent backup of the database, maybe try reverting that too.
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do you mean the entire themes folder? or all of drupal? my latest database backup was after this problem started occurring. I'm new to being a server admin and haven't quite yet realized that i need to back up stuff often.
oh, and just reuploading
oh, and just reuploading themes didn't work.
It really depends on the
It really depends on the stakes, in deciding which way to go.
If you want to be super-careful, You can download all the files and use Winmerge to compare against the files that should be there (nothing gets changed), and make the necessary fixes.
If starting over from scratch is not a big deal, then save off backups of .htaccess and settings.php file(s) and just re-upload all the Drupal files and modules. Then restore settings.php and inspect .htaccess for any differences. This may fix it, it may not.
It sounds most likely that you deleted some file or folder that was necessary. So if the files are all restored will it work again? maybe, maybe not.
I'd personally go the first route, so I know what happened, but the second way may fix it with less effort.
i opted to just reinstall...
i opted to just reinstall... i didn't have much on the site anyways. it was still under construction.