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Has anyone tested to see if it works yet?

OK, I went ahead and upgraded anyway as it is only a test site at the moment.  Now I cannot log in to the forum while it is wrapped.  I get the error ' Unable to load the 'main' template'.  Is anyone experiencing the same problem and did you find a fix?

Thanks

had the same problem, and i downgraded to beta3... haven't found a fix yet...

I have joomla 1.0 working with the CVS of RC1 from last week...   I have not yet upgraded to the released version of RC1 (too many sites to manage, not enough time for testing! :( )

I just tried it on a test site and am getting the same error message.

after logging in, I am still shown as "Guest" in both Mambo and SMF, and SMF comes up with a "Unable to load 'main' template" message.

I went through each of the four steps in order.

SMF 1.1RC1 works fine in stand alone.

I'm using
SMF 1.1 RC1 (upgraded from 1.0.5 after removing old bridge)
Oxygen theme
Mambo 4.5.2.3 Stable
MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_SMF1.1b3.zip (using wrapped mode)
Community Builder 1.0 RC1
Gallery 2.0 RC2
com_gallery2 2.0.6

Server:
PHP 4.3.10
MySQL 3.23.58
Apache 2.0.54
Linux 2.4.22

-bob

-edit-
just an added observation point... if I log in SMF in stand alone in a separate window, I show up in the mambo window with the smf login module as being logged in and smf works there wrapped, BUT my mambo usermenu doesn't show up which suggests to me that but that mambo really doesn't know I've logged in.

also, the problem happens in unwrapped as well as wrapped mode

Does the theme issue go away if you use the default theme?

I'm also getting this error on a fresh install of Joomla 1.0.1 and SMF 1.1RC1 with default themes. If I login to SMF standalone Joomla will recognize me as logged in. When attempting to logout from Joomla I'm directed to 'cannot load main template' message.

In your SMF admin pnael, "Current Theme", what is in the textbox for this: 

This theme's directory:


As a note, I find this rather odd, because I upgraded yesterday without this error:

http://www.everything-science.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=82

I have the following in mine...C:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\joomla\forum/Themes/default.   

I don't think this is correct, the slashes are going the wrong way after forum. 

Anyway I changed them but the problem still exists.

I'm experiencing the same kind of problems. I just installed a fresh copy of

mambo 4.5.2
SMF 1.1 RC1
MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_SMF1.1b3

I've put it out on my testsite http://www.arcgiraff.no/arcgiraff/~ansatte/wengen for everyone to see the result. I have added the user test (pw test)

Any suggestions for fixes is more than welcomed.

Quote from: wengen on September 23, 2005, 06:29:20 AM
I'm experiencing the same kind of problems. I just installed a fresh copy of

mambo 4.5.2
SMF 1.1 RC1
MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_SMF1.1b3

I've put it out on my testsite http://www.arcgiraff.no/arcgiraff/~ansatte/wengen for everyone to see the result. I have added the user test (pw test)

Any suggestions for fixes is more than welcomed.

Where are you experinecing this?  I went here:

http://www.arcgiraff.no/arcgiraff/~ansatte/wengen/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=2&board=3.0

and everything appears fine....

[EDIT] Confirmed working in both IE and Firefox...

Have you tried loggin in as test/test?
I am not able to log in, and in the forum it says "An error has occured! - unable to load the "main" template."

Are you not having the same problems?

So this error occurs only upon the event of logging in?

That's right - or actually in the event of not beeing able to log in :)

Quote from: wengen on September 23, 2005, 06:42:18 AM
Have you tried loggin in as test/test?
I am not able to log in, and in the forum it says "An error has occured! - unable to load the "main" template."

Are you not having the same problems?

I get "unable to load the main template" here as well.

test/test does not seem to "login"

wengen, if I go to your main forum location /forum, using test/test is telling me that the password is incorrect?

I have entered the password "test" again in the userconfiguration to be sure. Still no change on my mambopage for me.

OK,  test/test works now from /forum...

but you're right in the main mambo page, still not working.  It's similar behavior as my Joomla/wrapped SMF 1.1RC1 install...

Just to report that I've installed SMF 1.1 RC1 and got the same problem I had when I upgraded to SMF 1.1 Beta 4...

"Unable to load main"

It was the same problem as before, where Source/MOS_SMF.php had 0 bytes.  When I copied this file back up manually, everything worked smoothly again.

That behavior was rumored to be a SMF bug with file uploads.  If this is the case, it still exists in 1.1 RC1.


TG

PS - Here's the topic where we hashed this out before with SMF 1.1 Beta 4:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=47377.0

If it's any help, here is an error from the log..

2: call_user_func(MOS_Logout): First argument is expected to be a valid callback
File: C:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\joomla\forum\index.php
Line: 131

and on line 131 of index.php I have this code:

call_user_func(smf_main());

Quote from: Orstio on September 22, 2005, 09:42:04 PM
In your SMF admin pnael, "Current Theme", what is in the textbox for this: 

This theme's directory:

mine was set to the wrong directory. In creating my test site, I copied my 1.0.5 site and database to another account and did the update there. I had updated everything in Settings.php to reflect the new site and got it working, and then I did the upgrade. But now my "This theme's directory" was still set the the old path from my previous install.

I tried changing it to point to the current path, but am now getting a "Template Parse Error" page. My default is set to the oxygen theme so I'd like to change the default back to original Default to see if there's a problem there too. Is there something I can change in phpMyAdmin to do this? I can't get the admin menu anymore because of the "Template Parse Error."

-bob

--edit--
I managed to change the theme_guests variable in the smf_themes table to "1" (default theme), and the ID_THEME for each member in the smf_members tables to "1" as well. Now I can log in to smf stand alone again. I also fixed the path in theme_dir for my themes in the smf_themes table.

I still have the problems logging in and out. But at least the guest can see the forum. And if I log into SMF in stand alone in a different window, it works fine there and now I can even see myself logged in the forum functioning in my mambo window. But when I try to log out, it's giving me the " Unable to load the 'main' template" error.

One thing I noticed in the tables while perusing with phpMyAdmin, several paths are still pointing to my old path before the move (eg attachment and smiley directories). Seems like these ought to be updated when I upated Settings.php file after I copied the site to a testing area.

Quote from: TriGrrrl on September 23, 2005, 10:57:09 AM
Just to report that I've installed SMF 1.1 RC1 and got the same problem I had when I upgraded to SMF 1.1 Beta 4...

"Unable to load main"

It was the same problem as before, where Source/MOS_SMF.php had 0 bytes.  When I copied this file back up manually, everything worked smoothly again.

That behavior was rumored to be a SMF bug with file uploads.  If this is the case, it still exists in 1.1 RC1.


TG

PS - Here's the topic where we hashed this out before with SMF 1.1 Beta 4:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=47377.0

thanks!!! that was it!

My Sources/MOS_SMF.php file had zero bytes too. I replaced it by hand with the original from the smf_mambo3.1.tar.gz (found in "step-by-step install/step 1" in MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_SMF1.1b3.zip)  and now it seems to work!  :D

crossing my fingers now...

-bob

Quote from: TriGrrrl on September 23, 2005, 10:57:09 AM
Just to report that I've installed SMF 1.1 RC1 and got the same problem I had when I upgraded to SMF 1.1 Beta 4...

"Unable to load main"

It was the same problem as before, where Source/MOS_SMF.php had 0 bytes.  When I copied this file back up manually, everything worked smoothly again.

That behavior was rumored to be a SMF bug with file uploads.  If this is the case, it still exists in 1.1 RC1.


TG


PS - Here's the topic where we hashed this out before with SMF 1.1 Beta 4:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=47377.0

Works for me! Thanks a lot...

Well I am still having problems....I cannot log in using the login form that is built in to the forum, I can only login via the login module in Joomla. And the new users are not being replicated in the user manager in the back end of Joomla... :'(

Do you have a URL?

Sorry Orstio, is on my local pc.....

Quote from: marlyred on September 23, 2005, 02:16:41 PM
Well I am still having problems....I cannot log in using the login form that is built in to the forum, I can only login via the login module in Joomla. And the new users are not being replicated in the user manager in the back end of Joomla... :'(

Exact same problem I am having...  commenting out line 556 in includes/joomla.php is correctly logging me into both joomla and smf -- I can see the Joomla user menu items.  (in the admin backend I am more than one instance of "kai920"?? is this normal?)

I also cannot use the built in SMF form to login.  What error are you getting?  Mine says "You didn't enter your password."

More on the "multiple instances" of my last post:

I found that every time i refresh my website or click on any link, one additional instance of "kai920' is added as logged in (Joomla! backend)

This must have something to do with disabling line 556 of joomla.php.  Anyone have similar reports?

yes...   Orstio figured that bit out...   the Joomla people added the session cookie information because mambo was notroiously bad about tracking ACTUAL logins...

So, removing the line as per the hack takes you BACK to the way mambo handled things... and hence it records multiple instances of people logging in, even if they are actually only logged in once...

I've got the same basic install: Joomla 1.01 and SMF 1.1-rc1 and version MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_SMF1.1b3.zip of the brigde. I guess I'm getting a bit of a different problem. After making a clean install of mentionend components, I can register a member but after registering it  displays the forum full screen (it doesn't wrap anymore).
Just going back to the page shows the normal joomla page and clicking forum shows the forum wrapped. All seems fine, but logout is not possible! Clicking loguit in the joomla page or in the forum doesn't make any difference. I can only logout by removing the cookie. Login in after removing the cookie isn't possible anymore.....

Any clues on what might be wrong?

Regards

You can have a go at www.zzf98clan.net (an old domain I keep for testing)

You did not complete installation of Step 1.

Ah, fixed that..thanx.

It seems to work but only a small (I hope) error remains.
Register, login and logout all works in joomla mainpage. Trying to login at the forum (wrapped) gives me:

8: Undefined property: login
File: /var/www/virtual/zzf98clan.net/html/forum/Sources/MOS_SMF.php
Line: 46

and if logged in and trying to logout with the smf button I get:

8: Undefined property: logout
File: /var/www/virtual/zzf98clan.net/html/forum/Sources/MOS_SMF.php
Line: 467

Just opening the forum page itself works fine. Can login and logout without any problems....

Did I do something wrong again?

Regards

Quote8: Undefined property: login
File: /var/www/virtual/zzf98clan.net/html/forum/Sources/MOS_SMF.php
Line: 46

and if logged in and trying to logout with the smf button I get:

8: Undefined property: logout
File: /var/www/virtual/zzf98clan.net/html/forum/Sources/MOS_SMF.php
Line: 467

Go to your Joomla admin panel.  Go to your Modules menu, and click on Site Modules.

Find the mod_smf_login in the list of modules.  It might not be on the first page.  Click on it.

Edit the params to your liking, and click Save at the top of the page.

thanx for solving this....guess it's newbie stuff so thanx again for taking the time to explain.  Now its time to take www.linuxplaza.net to be switched from xoops to joomla with this brilliant forum (which is going to be hours of headaches I'm afraid ;))

Regards (a new fan ;))

I have gone through all the steps and installed the bridge, all insalled fine.

now when i log in via the new "bridged" login. It redirects me to the forum no matter how i set the module... I would like it to "Back to the Mambo Homepage" but it does not.

thanks for the help

<EDIT>i just uninstalled then re-installed the smf_login mod, and it works :-)

Quote from: TriGrrrl on September 23, 2005, 10:57:09 AM
Just to report that I've installed SMF 1.1 RC1 and got the same problem I had when I upgraded to SMF 1.1 Beta 4...

"Unable to load main"

It was the same problem as before, where Source/MOS_SMF.php had 0 bytes.  When I copied this file back up manually, everything worked smoothly again.

That behavior was rumored to be a SMF bug with file uploads.  If this is the case, it still exists in 1.1 RC1.


TG

PS - Here's the topic where we hashed this out before with SMF 1.1 Beta 4:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=47377.0

Ditto. Same problem for me. a manual copy of the mos_smf.php file worked.

it seems to be a problem with RC1...  if a file already exists and the package manager tries to copy a new version over it, the new version comes in as 0kb.

I had no problems using the package manager on a clean install....

Yes, but doesn't it "uninstall" the packages when you upgrade? It doesn't appear to be deleting the file if so.

Rad...

it "uninstalls" mods when you upgrade because it overwrites the SMF Source files...   additional files (like MOS-SMF.php or the shop mod or arcade mod files) are not deleted...   

Yeah, I can see how this would happen. Either way, that's all it took to fix my upgrade. I upgraded to Joomla and 1.1r1 without any other trouble. Took about 15 minutes.

Quote from: Radianation on September 27, 2005, 05:06:09 PM
I upgraded to Joomla and 1.1r1 without any other trouble. Took about 15 minutes.

You give me hope.  Here I go.....

BTW - Anybody upgrading from Mambo to Joomla! - I made backups of the entire database and my web folder first, but then I just  copied the Joomla files over the Mambo files and ran the sql script. It worked. No other changes were necessary on that aspect.

Thanks, Radianation, that worked pretty well for me as well, with the addition of a few custom file changes on my end.

we've just transferred over to use joomla and smf 1.1 and everything seems to be working fine in internet explorer and firefox (although a bit slow sometimes) - but log ins etc. all work.

Using safari however is a nightmare - it crashes loads, sometimes it shows all the images as broken and displays a copyright error. 2 days ago our hosts suspended the site for sql abuse and when they finally let us back on I checked the error log and found...............28,000 pages of errors!!!! Twenty Eight Thousand!!

Today did fresh installs and safari worked fine for a couple of hours and then crashed again. Checked the error log and just 3 crashes caused nearly 4,000 pages of errors!!

I don't mind using firefox instead but we're worried somebody else using the site with safari might cause us  to get suspended again. I'm assuming that its a bridging problem that will get sorted when a newer version of the bridge is done but if anyone has any suggestions we'd be very grateful.

PS - errors were various things to do with includes/subs.php

site is www.yomo.co.uk

Have you checked to see if those errors are showing up only when Safari is viewing the site?  Or, maybe it's two different problems?

Just a thought.  I haven't gotten to the point yet of testing my test site with Safari.

Test my site with Safari if you need to. www.louipimps.com

I've noticed that everything loads a little faster with Joomla!

your site looks fine in safari - loads up quick etc. and no problems/crashes.

I think the problem with our site might be cookie related. It worked fine for quite a while and then got to a point where every time I clicked on the forum link it would crash straight away. Have just deleted the smf cookie and now its working ok again.

I've changed the name of the smf cookie in server settings but if anyone knows anything about cookie settings and any other places I should make changes please let me know (or if I'm completely wrong & its nothing to do with them!!).

Sorry if I'm now in the wrong post though?! But as said before everything else with the bridge seems fine - oh yeah except for one small error which is to do with the ext_calendar - if you have it on pop up events when you go to edit/delete an event it fails to load the page. You can get round this though by not having the event pop up - if you keep it in the main page it loads fine.

could just be our site but theres a definite problem with safari and the bridge. It does seem cookie related as it only happens after a certain amount of time and then if you clear them you can view the site ok.

Just had our site suspended for the second time though (thousands of page errors again!) although the host is rubbish - didn't give us any notice and then were down for the whole day on Monday - all this during their 30 day trial period!! Thankfully have got everything backed up another host though so I'm going to remove the bridge and just have the forum stand alone which isn't the end of the world as we haven't got any restrictions on other parts of the site at the moment anyway - so will just wait for the new bridge!!

Waffling on now - PS I don't advise Acenet Inc for hosting!

I wonder if this has anything to do with the users being shown as logged into Joomla/Mambo several times because of the way it handles sessions or something?

well I've just about no knowledge at all of this stuff - I just cobble together everyone elses work and hope it functions! but I do remember seeing that the sessions table in phpmyadmin being really big the first time it happened.

Also in Joomla I was getting people that were on aol shown as logged in over 100 times - I remember having to do something about this with Mambo (but can't remember the solution).

Hope it all helps with those that do know what they're doing (so I can cobble together their work in the future!)

we'll just call you the cobbler  ;)

OK, just didn't want to post my problem because of all the possible solutions in the previous posts, but after a first time installation and one day of struggling into codes I surrender.

This is my story:  :D  :)  :o  :-\  :(  >:(  :-[  :'(
In words:
Did a fresh installation of SMF with the latest files into Mambo 4.5.2.. Everything went well and I was able to use the wrapped version into my site (which is on a locale server so I am unable to give a reachable address). I also copied the MOS_SMF.php again because the original MOS_SMF.php was 0 KB.

The error of not finding the main template resolved, but now after login in I get nada, nothing. The page is completely blank, although the url (localaddress/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=87&action=mambo_login) is still there.

Can someone make my day again?

Greetings Lextof

Is SMF set up to allow guest access?  Is your forum link in your main menu accessible to the public?
Check in your Mambo administration if Gzip compression is turned off
Check in your Mambo administration wheter your absolute path is set correct.
Check in your Mambo administration if your menulink is added correctly and is pointing to the right component.

Is the joomla-smf bridge ready yet? :P

Thanks Chadness,

I've checked everything and all settings where ok with me, so no changes were made with me which mean no working login session yet.

I tried to login with the administration id and password. I even registered a new user which all went ok, but after login in the blank screen keeps comming.

Some other suggestions?

Greetings Lextof

Some extra information regarding my problem.

After refreshing the page several times my website returns and in the forum an error is shown. Translated from Dutch it says:

Title: An error occurred!
Text: You will have to wait 5 seconds in order to login again, sorry.

The strange thing is that the login procedure was successful because I'm no longer a guest anymore.

clear the cookies?

Cleared, and unfortunately no effect.

Have you tried the solution by Chadness here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=43484.msg371697#msg371697

Did now, but same error/problems. Even installed the template!

I will try to install the forum into the site where it should work; it's now on a local server. Maybe it will work there properly.

Installed SMF again but now on a live site. Because of a live situation and a non working SMF I unpublished the link. But no worries, you can go to the forum with this link: http://www.enorm.nl/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=90

username: lextof
password: lextof

Note: I still have the same login problems that I mentioned before. Refreshing the page is now not successful and won't get me through. The blank page is al I get.

I ran in to something like that, and ended up uninstalling and reinstalling things until it worked.

Actually, I think it ended up being the SMF package - I uninstalled and reinstalled that, then re-uploaded the MOS_SMF.php file, and it worked for me.

Re-uploading MOS_SMF.php should fix this.

Pffff, finally got it working. I already tried in replacing the MOS_SMF.php file but I did it again. No luck there. Then uninstalled the package replaced the source files with the original source files en uploaded the package again and installed it. Then uploaded MOS_SMF.php again, and became a happy man. Don't ask me how and why but it works. Very, very strange.

I also noticed two strange things.

The first was an error in the back-end of Mambo: Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module. in myaddress/administrator/index2.php on line 34

This error occurs during several activities in the back-end of Mambo. After refreshing the page Mambo back-end appeared again.

The other strange thing is the version of MOS_SMF.php file is given by SMF.  (Forum Maintenance/Check all files against current versions.). At Sources the version of MOS_SMF.php is ??, instead of 1.1 RC1 like the rest is.

Quote from: Lextof on October 18, 2005, 05:33:40 AM
I also noticed two strange things.

The first was an error in the back-end of Mambo: Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module. in myaddress/administrator/index2.php on line 34

This error occurs during several activities in the back-end of Mambo. After refreshing the page Mambo back-end appeared again.

That sounds like a Mambo issue, if it's happening in several areas.  Not sure what would cause it, since it is intermittent.

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The other strange thing is the version of MOS_SMF.php file is given by SMF.  (Forum Maintenance/Check all files against current versions.). At Sources the version of MOS_SMF.php is ??, instead of 1.1 RC1 like the rest is.

That's because MOS_SMF.php is not part of SMF, so it doesn't understand it.  If it bothers you, you could probably copy the version line out of the header or one of the SMF files.  This is just a guess, though, I'm not sure how it does its version check.

Quote
That's because MOS_SMF.php is not part of SMF, so it doesn't understand it.  If it bothers you, you could probably copy the version line out of the header or one of the SMF files.  This is just a guess, though, I'm not sure how it does its version check.

It doesn't bother to me now, now I know it's all ok and not one of the problems. ;D

I must say SMF keeps you busy, because I finally got SMF working when the next problem occurs. Just after the altered successful installation of SMF and logout from Mambo Back-end I'm unable to login again to the Back-end of Mambo. It says I entered a wrong username, password or that I don't have enough permission. Gee..., is there anything higher than Super Administrator?  ::) Thank the SMF installation guide for attending me to create a back up file of the database for "just in case".

I think I will have to start all over again. :-[

QuoteI must say SMF keeps you busy, because I finally got SMF working when the next problem occurs. Just after the altered successful installation of SMF and logout from Mambo Back-end I'm unable to login again to the Back-end of Mambo. It says I entered a wrong username, password or that I don't have enough permission. Gee..., is there anything higher than Super Administrator?   Thank the SMF installation guide for attending me to create a back up file of the database for "just in case".

You need your SMF username and password to be the same as your Mambo username and password.

The bridge will change your Mambo password to match your SMF password when you login to the frontend.

So, ALWAYS use your SMF password.

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You need your SMF username and password to be the same as your Mambo username and password.

The bridge will change your Mambo password to match your SMF password when you login to the frontend.

So, ALWAYS use your SMF password.

I did! I entered the same Super Administrator username and password during SMF installation.

Luckily, that's one problem I never ran in to!

You could delete your password in the mos_users and smf_members table and log in with no password, then change it.

I had this same problem.  For some of the accounts, I was able to delete the account on the mambo side, and then log in again to allow SMF to repopulate the mambo user.

But some of the mambo accounts have admin privileges and are troublesome to delete.


TG

Quote from: Lextof on October 19, 2005, 07:09:44 AM

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You need your SMF username and password to be the same as your Mambo username and password.

The bridge will change your Mambo password to match your SMF password when you login to the frontend.

So, ALWAYS use your SMF password.

I did! I entered the same Super Administrator username and password during SMF installation.

Hi! I run joomla 1.0.4. (italian) and smf 1.1 RC but I've not put the bridge on 'cause I've read about a lot of problem for this one. Anyone could tell me something about a stabile version of this bridge so I couldn't have any problem?ùù

Thanx a lot!

I don't know what "lot of problems" you've heard about, Luce...  I'ce installed the 3.19 bridge a number of times with no difficulties at all.

Version 3.20 of the bridge should be a lot easier to install, but it requires SMF 1.1 RC2, and who knows when thatwill be released....

Let me see if I get this right. (Please correct me if I am wrong).

For the Joomla-SMF bridge to work one must:

1. Install Joomla
2. Install SMF (in the same database? Should SMF be in a joomla subdirectory?)
3. Install the bridge.

Would you advise to use Mambo or Joomla? It seems a bit confusing really,  there are all these componets etc for Mambo, but do they work for Joomla?

1. Install Joomla
2. Install SMF
3. Install the bridge
4. Modify the bridge's file MOS_SMF.php in the SMF Sources directory as indicated in the combined readme post for Joomla installations.

a) they do not have to be in the same database (but can be, if you wish)
b) smf does not have to be a sub-directiry of Joomla... (but can be if you wish)

Thanks Kindred!

What would you guys recommend, Mambo or Joomla? Are the mambo components compatible with Joomla?

I would recommend Joomla, most Mambo component and modules are compatible with Joomla

Joomla for sure !!!

The vast majority of Mambo components and other add-ons work with Joomla, but if you have problems there's usually someone to help you fairly quickly.