Unable to load template errors

[Elora]

Aloha;

I just installed SMF 1.1 RC1.

I am having the following problems:

1) There is no edit news link in my admin panel
2) Package manager when I click on apply mod gives me the following: Unable to load the 'ftp_required' template.
3) Personal message will not load - the following message is reported - Unable to load the 'pm_above' template.
4) In the Forum Profile Information the option for adding Avatars or changing them is missing.

ideas? Theme related? I can't even find ftp_required template in my directory...

thank you.

[xenovanis]

Upload the /Themes directory and all it's file again to overwrite the existing ones. You may even consider using another ftp-client, as it looks like something went wrong during upload.

[Elora]

Hmm - I reuploaded the entire package and even switched ftp clients... still having the same problems.

What is interesting to me is the upgrade said it executed properly. I wonder if the custom theme I have is interfering? Although I still do not see ftp_required in any directory.

[xenovanis]

Ah, you are using a custom theme. Does this also happen in the default theme?

You might be interested in this thread:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=50411.0

[Elora]

I think I get the stupid award for the day and possibly screwed up my forum past the point of no return.

I upgraded THIS forum without upgrading FROM the beta first. I was running 1.05 on this forum and tried to upgrade it ....

I am not sure what I should do now.

[redone]

Then download and run the upgrade package from 1.05 to 1.1rc.

http://www.simplemachines.org/download.php/smf_1-1-rc1_upgrade.zip

~redone

[xenovanis]

You should be fine upgrading from 1.0.5 to 1.1 RC1. Your problem is, as I understand correctly, that you are using a custom theme that is not compatible with 1.1 RC1, so you should make some change to make it work.

[redone]

Start your upgrade and run in the default theme before you test out the custom theme. Like xenovanis said you will need to make changes to your other theme.

[Elora]

Okay -

Yes... You are right, as I try to edit the index file - I am getting all kinds of template errors.

I think I will have to use a default theme and then reconstruct the old theme afterwards. Many of the search and replace code pieces are not even listed in the files for the theme I am running.

[Elora]

Well after working all morning on this I am still no closer to an answer. The theme when changed to default does exactly the same things as described above.

None of the functions that were missing appear. Very frustrating.

[Elora]

Is ftp_required  an actual file?

No one can send pms on my site either

[Eva]

I am having exactly the same problem....

And I am using the default theme for my Forum...
I re-uploaded the files via FTP-Surfer but no luck...

Any ideas?

[redone]

As posted above some of your template files must be missing. I am not fammilar with the ftp programs mentioned above and quite a few are prone to missing files of when uploading.

Try this one http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

~redone

[Oldiesmann]

ftp_required is a sub-template of the Packages template. I would definitely recommend using FileZilla, as it will ask you what to do when you try to upload a file that already exists on the server ("Overwrite" will be selected by default, then check the box next to "Always perform the selected action" and click "OK").

[Eva]

I finally solved the mystery.... 

Maybe someone else faces this same problem so I'll just tell you the mistake...

I copied all my real forum's files in another location in order to create a test forum and try the upgrade there first. I used a different database so that nothing gets mixed up...

Even though I changed the Settings.php in order to point at the new, correct location I didn't change the settings for the template through the theme administration page.
Thus the forum was using the correct links but the template was loading from the wrong files...

I hope this will help someone else with the same problem... 

[redone]

That is useful information for everyone. Let me add that using repar_paths.php would of fixed the paths problem too.

Thanks for the feedback.

~redone