Forum Screwed After Upgrade

[Mariner]

In my hast to upgrade i upgraded my forum to latest ver (beta) and dint realise it was beta at the time.
After the upgrade i get this on my forum Unable to load the 'boardindex_outer_above' template.

Can anyone advise me what to do.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Looks like you're running a 2.0 theme in 2.1 - won't work.  Try it in default Curve.

Did you backup your 2.0 database before upgrading?

[Mariner]

I keep choosing this SMF Default Theme - Curve2  but it keeps reverting back to old theme after a while then i get error message i mentioned in my first post

I backed the forum up but it looks like 1 SQL file in a .gz file

[Illori]

try What is repair_settings.php?. it should let you reset the default theme to the default.

[Kindred]

right....   what you SHOULD do, at this point, is restore the backup database and the backed up files... if you didn't actually back up your files -- then restore the database and load a fresh set of 2.0.11 file

[Mariner]

Its only 1 sql file that was created after the backup,is that right?

[Illori]

it should be one file, but all the tables should be in it. we are not mind readers so we dont know what is in the file. please DONT attach it so that we can look at it.

[Kindred]

so, you created a backup -- but apparently ONLY backed up the DATABASE --- (you did not back up the file part of the system)
If you used the backup option in the SMF Admin, that would explain it...   that only backed up the database (and, it should be noted, on larger sites, the backup from the admin tool is not always usable)


http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Backup

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/How_to_upload_a_fresh_set_of_files

[Illori]

then you need to run repair_settings.php to make the install connect to the database. or edit Settings.php.

[Kindred]

bit, it should be noted: The intention is to restore your system to be a working 2.0.x version -- NOT the 2.1 beta

[Mariner]

Will have to leave it,cant work out how to do this.Thanks though everyone for trying to help me

[Illori]

it really sounds like you need to pay someone to revert you back if your host will not help. if you cant handle what we have asked you really should not be using the beta version which does have bugs and issues.

[Mariner]

Yes it looks like i'll need someone to fix it for me.