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Hi,

I’m getting the following error when invoking {exp:forum}:
“Unable to locate the following forum theme file: default/forum_index/forum_homepage.html”

If I change the default theme to anything else, the message stays the same which leads me to think it’s not pulling that info from where I think it should be.

Also, I have checked the themes folder and the folder/file exists.

More:
“http://www.oga.org/ogaeecp20/index.php/member/edit_profile/” returns the following error:
“The page you requested was not found”

Info:
The EE 1.6 install is located at “http://www.oga.org”, the EE 2.1.3 version is at “http://www.oga.org/ogaeecp20”. All other issues, CP logins, separate DB and all, seem to be working.

I have installed the discussion forum module - the correct one for EE 2.1.3

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce

Bruce,

To confirm. You have a separate theme folder inside this directory http://www.oga.org/ogaeecp20
And you have uploaded your Forum themes to http://www.oga.org/ogaeecp20/themes/?

Is the board preferences Forum URL correct for that EE2.x site?

Hi John,

Yes to all of the above.

Some more info: the theme folder structure/contents are different for 1.6 and 2.1.3. In 1.6, default/forum_index/forum_homepage.html structure/contents doesn’t exist. If I just copy that one file and directory structure to the 1.6 themes location, the 2.1.3 site finds it, and I get the NEXT file not found error.

In searching for this here is what I found: in the system/expressionengine/libraries/Core.php file on about lines 220 to 240, there is code setting up $themes_path. This code tries to determine if it’s currently operating out of the system folder or in the front end of the site. It does this by testing:

        if ( ! is_dir($theme_path))
        {
if (is_dir(FCPATH.'../themes/')) // We're in the system directory
{
$theme_path = FCPATH.'../themes/';
}
          elseif (is_dir(FCPATH.‘themes/’)) // Front end.
          {
$theme_path = FCPATH.'themes/';
}
        }

So the way I see it, if it finds a themes folder in the parent directory, assumes that’s proper. In my case it isn’t. If I then hard code thus: $theme_path = FCPATH.‘themes/’; then my forum stuff works but various other things like the addons/modules page of the CP cease to function.

So off the cuff it seems like there may be a problem running a new install in a first subfolder of a pre-existing site. If the 1.6 site wasn’t live, I’d temporarily rename the 1.6 themes folder to something else and see what happens, but I can’t do that.

Ideas?

Thanks,

Bruce

Hi, Bruce, is there any other way of running the 2.x install differently? It might very well be due to how you’re running 2.x inside of 1.x.