Problem with themes

[v10viper04]

Hello I have a fresh install of 2.0.11 and I have a problem. The themes are not showing up after I "install' them. SMF was showing a couple errors when I installed originally so I reinstalled on PHP version 5.5 (Godaddy) and the errors went away. Basically I click on "Browse" in the install a new theme box, select the theme I want to install and click "Install!". It asks are you sure you want to install this theme and I click yes. The page reloads and shows no errors and the theme I tried to install is not showing up. Any ideas? (The Curve and core themes work correctly also) I have used SMF for a few different websites and never had this problem, I have no idea.

[v10viper04]

No one has any idea? 101 views and not a single person?

[Kindred]

You install the theme, but do you SET the theme to be used?

[v10viper04]

You install the theme, but do you SET the theme to be used?

The theme is not showing up at all. I can select 2 themes, SMF default theme curve and Core theme. Those are the only 2 options I have. Even in the theme settings tab it only shows the 2 themes. It's like SMF is not actually even installing the theme...

[Steve]

Side note:

No one has any idea? 101 views and not a single person?

Keep in mind almost all of those views are bots or spiders.

Back to your question ...

[Gluz]

How do you install the theme? Upload a .zip file? Some subdirectory in your FTP? Click on one of the recommendations?

Any error in the PHP error log or in the froum log?

[v10viper04]

I upload a zip file. (The way I have always done it) Also no error logs at all.

[v10viper04]

Well I was able to install a theme by creating the folder and extracting the theme into that folder then using the URL install. I also noticed that when I used that method SMF gives me the message "theme installed successfully". When I try to install directly from the Zip file it just reloads the "manage and install tab" page with no messages at all from the forum. I don't understand that. I tried 5-6 themes and they all do the same things using the .Zip method.

[Kindred]

it actually sounds like you have an issue with your server.... possibly chown or chmod related

[v10viper04]

it actually sounds like you have an issue with your server.... possibly chown or chmod related

I'm not familiar with those things. Any advice how I would determine the issue to be one of both of those? I'm not an expert on running a website/forum. I'm limited in my knowledge.

[Kindred]

when you install the theme using the theme manager -- is the custom theme directory created under /Themes/?
Are all of the files and subdirectories added to that custom theme directory?

Is an entry made into your database smf_themes table
SELECT * FROM `smf_themes` WHERE `variable` IN ('name','theme_url','images_url','theme_dir')