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#1 2011-07-07 21:06:54
- benbru
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Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
Hi!
I updated TXP in May, but could not get in to the admin side. I came back to the problem tonight, but can’t get round the issue. When I visit <site>/textpattern, the message is:
cannot_instantiate_theme: classic, classic_theme, /htdocs/cw/textpattern/theme/classic/classic.php
I have re-installed the whole directory and refreshed but still have the same issue. I understand that if an admin-side theme fails, it would fall back to classic, but what happens that that doesn’t work?!
Any help/pointers would be appreciated.
Ben
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
Just to clarify, your textpattern directory is within another directory called /cw/ is that correct?
/htdocs/ is usually the root directory where textpattern resides.
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#3 2011-07-08 07:01:17
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
Hi Phil: yes, the site is under cw, and TXP is sat under textpattern within that. The front-end of the site still works; so I know textpattern is running!
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#4 2011-07-08 19:02:56
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
bump: any suggestions anyone?
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
Do your diagnostics show anything?
Did you try reloading the theme just in case there was a corruption in the upload the 2nd time round?
Did you try uploading the index files too?
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#6 2011-07-08 20:13:16
- benbru
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
Thanks, colak…
colak wrote:
Do your diagnostics show anything?
I can’t get in to the admin side at all to see them or even to turn them on! There’s nothing at all in the source for the error page apart from the line above
Did you try reloading the theme just in case there was a corruption in the upload the 2nd time round?
Yep, have just tried again…
Did you try uploading the index files too?
…and I included everything in the theme directory
Regards
Ben
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Is the directory readable ? I mean not only present, but also if access rights are properly set.
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#8 2011-07-08 20:42:57
- benbru
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
It’s currently 0644…
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Hmm, no idea & never heard that before.
Just some very foggy suggestions (no order intended):
- check: http://<insert your domain>/textpattern/index.php?event=diag – Can/Should only work if cookies txp_login, txp_login_public are stored in your browser.
- check: can you browser load http://<insert your domain>/textpattern/license.txt
- check: can you browser load http://<insert your domain>/textpattern/theme/classic/carver.gif or screenshot.png or textpattern.css
- browser: clean cache
- browser: delete cookies – There are normally two for the backend: txp_login, txp_login_public
- clean install: create another directory, download a fresh Textpattern and copy all new files to the new /textpattern directory
- server: check all paths
- server: try absolute full server paths instead of relative paths
Very obscure :(
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
benbru wrote:
I can’t get in to the admin side at all to see them or even to turn them on! There’s nothing at all in the source for the error page apart from the line above
Did you try resetting the password?
from the FAQs
With phpMyAdmin, or at the MySQL command prompt, run the following query:
update txp_users set pass=password(lower('pass')) where name='user';..where pass is the new password, and user is the login username.
Yiannis
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benbru wrote:
I understand that if an admin-side theme fails, it would fall back to classic
Sort of: it depends how serious the error is. But in this case, it is classic that’s failing so it has nowhere else to go!
If site.com/cw/textpattern (admin-side) is failing but site.com/cw (public side) is working then that is a very strange set of affairs. It does smack of permissions or .htaccess. Have you tried increasing the permissions of the theme directory (at minimum) or the entire cw/textpattern dir, just to prove it’s not some change your hoster has made?
Past that I can’t think of what would make the entire admin side fail. I have a subdir install that I just upgraded from 4.0.8 to 4.4.1 (I tested it in case we’d missed something for upgraders of subdirs) but it worked first time. Cant figure off the top of my head why a subdir install would fail on your server. A puzzler for sure.
EDIT: just for the record, what version of PHP / MySQL / Apache are you using?
Last edited by Bloke (2011-07-09 07:16:29)
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Re: Failing to open the Classic Admin theme
benbru a écrit:
It’s currently 0644…
That’s it. chmod +x should resolve the issue.
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