Forum issues after 7.0.8 upgrade? Try this

I am only advising this because it worked for me with a custom template. Note: I have not customized the forum from the default layout.

- First, switch your template to Uni and see if you can access the forum. If you can, compile the language again and then proceed to the next step.

- Via FTP, navigate to the modules/boonex/forum/layout directory. Your should see 2 folder in there with your template name. We will use the example of template name 'blue'. So you should see blue and blue_en. Make a backup of these 2 folders to your local machine.

- Next, download JUST the uni folder from the same directory to your local machine.

- After you have made backup copies of your template folders (ex. blue and blue_en). Delete them from the modules/boonex/forum/layout directory

- Rename the uni folder that you downloaded to your local machine to your template name (ex. blue)

- Edit the params.php file and replace the the words 'uni' to match your template name. (ex. blue)

- Re-upload that folder that you just renamed to the modules/boonex/forum/layout directory

- Change your template BACK to your custom template name in the Admin Panel.

- Access the Forum via Admin Panel > Modules - Recompile the language from the Manage Forum tab.

** If you have caching turned on, you will need to clear the cache when you switch templates.

Hope this helps.

It works for me. but it still shows: "[L[Compile Lang:]]En"

Language refuse to Compile!

Thanks for sharing though.

Hello,

After upgrading to 7.0.8 all the pages of the forum module shows blank.

Even using english/default template doesn't solve this issue... and of course I can't recompile languages as I can't access to manage forum page.

As of now I reverted back to 7.0.7.

Does someone else have the same issue?

Finally succeeded to solve the issue by restarting from beginning and following steps described by Zarcon.

In addition, before to recompile the languages I updated the params.php files in "blue" equivalent templates.

 Thanks for reminding about that (params.php). I have edited my post to include those instructions I forgot about.

 Editing the params did the trick!

Thanks guys

Ok, I've been doing this a long time and I have never seen anything about adjusting the params.php file to solve this problem...

wow, that didn't work at all....

@Skyforum

In the instructions I gave, I said to make a copy of the 'uni' folder in the modules/boonex/forum/layout directory and rename it to your template name..

Inside that uni folder there is a params.php that has the following:

    $gConf['dir']['xsl'] = $gConf['dir']['layouts'] . 'uni/xsl/';    // xsl dir

    $gConf['url']['css'] = $gConf['url']['layouts'] . 'uni/css/';    // css url
    $gConf['url']['xsl'] = $gConf['url']['layouts'] . 'uni/xsl/';    // xsl url

Since this is a 'copy' of the default uni directory, the items in red need to be changed to reflect your template name.

If you did this, what is the issue you are still having?

Thanks this was really helpful Zarcon. Fixed me right up. Now I just stay aggravated that after every version update I lose my custom language keys by recompiling languages. Another topic though.

It worked, thanks..

u jus saved a few bucks of mine... these days $$$ are too costly in india so i ws a lil worried. 

thanks

Worked without any problems, even though it took me a while to get this solution.

Thanks great help!!

hi, i followed your instructions but i can not recompile languages. there is no mange tab in the forum for one. and i have also tried to recompile the language from the Tools>Modules and also from the Setting>Languages. Nothing works. Do you have any advice?

Thanks.