By TheOldGuy223 on
For some unknown reason without anything added to the site, the save button in my configure blocks page no longer works. I can no longer set the positions of any of my blocks, when I go in and edit my block positions and then hit "save", the page refreshes and nothing happened. Does anyone know a solution to this problem. Also if not, is there a way to go into the coding somewhere and manually adjust the positions. There is one block that desperatly needs activating and i cant get it to work. Thanks
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1. Try a different theme
1. Try a different theme (temporarily). The main block settings - positions etc. - are stored separately by theme. That might help pin down the problem. Which version of Drupal are you using? Does this also happen on a fresh install?
2. Possibly your server has a low PHP "time limit" or somesuch. See here for similar problem http://drupal.org/node/189292.
3. You can always configure them manually by diving into the {blocks} table in the database.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
how would one access the
how would one access the database manually? How do i get into it?
Many hosting packages come
Many hosting packages come with a web-based database administration interface (e.g. phpMyAdmin) which can be accessed via one's hosting control panel.
Or if you have shell access then you could use the mysql command line to run queries...
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
I did do that and when i
I did do that and when i made changes it didnt change what was veiwed on my website. Then if I tried to resubmit the change through the blocks page, the change I made to the database dissapeared. I sent a support ticket to my server about the low php time limit thing you mentioned and they said they would get back to me. Meanwhile after reading the post that you gave me the link to, I to have found that by disabling the views module that my problems are fixed. So that helps for now but it gets annoying because my entire site is views based.
How about ...
Turn off Views ... configure non-Views blocks to your heart's content .. re-enable Views ... you'll have to configure those via the database...
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk