Theme Activation
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I downloaded a couple of new themes earlier and haven't had any luck getting any of them to activate. I looked through the directories via FTP and noticed that they all appeared to have installed as packages instead of just base themes. My issue is that once they are installed and I am at the "Pages and Themes" page and the "Themes" tab, it lists all of the themes. If I try to choose one of the themes that I downloaded and click Activate and then Yes, activate this theme on the following page, it then takes me to an error page. It says
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Server Error in '/' Application
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as the heading with the following as the body
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
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Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide!
"
Server Error in '/' Application
"
as the heading with the following as the body
"
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
"
Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide!
I am not sure about the error log. I'm assuming it is available somewhere but I am not sure where or how to access it.
As for the alternative, I have tried copying the folder into the themes folder and it didn't make a difference but I also left it installed and in the packages folder. I will try removing it from the packages folder after it is uninstalled and just leave it in the themese folder. I will post back with the results from that.
Thanks
As for the alternative, I have tried copying the folder into the themes folder and it didn't make a difference but I also left it installed and in the packages folder. I will try removing it from the packages folder after it is uninstalled and just leave it in the themese folder. I will post back with the results from that.
Thanks
I just went through and uninstalled the theme that was installed through the packages folder, made sure it was removed from the packages folder, and removed it from the themese folder that I originally put there. I then went back and placed it back into the themes folder, logged into the Dashboard and it showed up at the bottom as available to install. I proceeded with the install. I then activated it and it said it was successful. After this, I went to the website and it worked fine.
Any ideas on why the package didn't work but just dropping it into the themes folder works fine?
Thanks everyone
Any ideas on why the package didn't work but just dropping it into the themes folder works fine?
Thanks everyone
Glad you got it to work. Without seeing the error log it's hard to say why the package installation failed. Concrete5 is primarily tested with the Apache web server, but your web host is using IIS (Microsoft's web server software), so it might have something to do with that (I dunno though, just guessing here).
It is going to be hard to diagnose the problem without this.
An alternative would be to pull the theme folders out of each package directory (on your local computer), and upload those directly to the themes folder (not packages) via FTP. You'll want to uninstall the themes from your server first before doing this though to prevent possible conflicts when you re-install them.