Stuck In Maintenance Mode

[Skooby2010]

Hiya,

My first problem was that when logged into my SMF Forum, the drop down boxes weren't working, for example, if I hovered over 'Profile' on the menu bar, the box would appear were the menu should be, but it was empty, although you could click on the menu items you couldnt see.

I thought it may have been a theme problem, and as the forum is active, I put the site into maintenance mode to change the theme. Anyway, now I cant get back into the forum admin - I login fine, then click 'Admin' and it takes me back to the login page!

Ive tried going into Settings.php and changing $maintenance to 1, 2 and 3, and I still cant get in.

Any ideas? or do I just need to take the drastic measure of deleting the whole forum and starting from scratch?

Thanks

[Paul_Pauline]

Have you just installed a new theme ?

Try this it may get you in  ............

In the address bar enter http:// yoursitesname.com/index.php?theme=1

This should force the default theme to load, assuming you haven't put the site in maintenance mode.

[Skooby2010]

Thanks for your reply....I have put the site into maintenance mode

[xenovanis]

Skooby2010, do you still need help with this?

Have you tried running repair_settings? Upload that file to your forum location and run it from there (like: http://www.yoursite.com/forum/repair_settings.php).

Click all blue links to correct paths and urls and don't forget to save!

What is repair_settings.php?