By ssampier on

I am using Drupal 6.6. Contributed themes work, but any custom themes I try to create do not.

I have a xhtml page and css web template modified to Drupal. I used the simple Quick and Dirty - OSWD theme to Drupal to drupalize my site.

I can select the theme in Drupal without problem. However, when I bring up the page in a browser, it is completely blank. The source code it bring up is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

My site is located in sites/all/theme/ and it contains style.css and page.tpl.php.

Further, I purchased Pro Drupal Development: Second Edition book yesterday. I created the theme exactly like GrayScale in the book; same results. The page is rendered completely blank; same source code.

Just to test I download the aboutpeople theme. I untarred it in sites/all/themes/drupal-contrib directory. The theme loads without issue.

Permissions was first guess. However, both aboutpeople and my custom themes are owned by apache and have 775 permissions.

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lukawanjohi’s picture

lukawanjohi commented

I have encountered the same issue i the last two days too, including the non-functional grayscale theme described in the pro drupal dev book. Someone please help, I am implementing a project on Drupal and the clock is ticking really fast!

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Jeff Burnz commented

delete your page.tpl.php file, clear the theme registry and reload your theme, this way Drupal will pull the default page.tpl.php file from modules/system/ and you will see if the issue is with your page.tpl.php file. Technically speaking a theme only needs to contain a .info file so it will work just fine.

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ssampier commented

Thanksgiving came up so I wasn't able to try this on our server at work. I did copy the theme to my Fantastico drupal version. The theme worked fine.

Now back to work, I reinstalled everything from scratch now I have other troubles. I will reply if it still does not work.