RC3 to RC4 - Serious Problem

Ok, I just did the upgrade from RC3 to RC4 and I now get a blank page for my homepage. I also get a blank page for my forums as well.

The admin panel works fine and I can manually navigate through the rest of the site but those 2 area (index.php and Forums) and coming up blank.

Can someone throw me a bone here?

Chris

Ok.. found the issue.. Seems it does not want to play with my template and will only load the UNI template..

Working on resolution

Chris

I Fixed for the index page showing as blank by adding the two following lines to the index page:

require( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php" );
require( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/tmpl_{$tmpl}/scripts/BxTemplIndex.php" );

Not sure why I had to do this to get my template to load. When I set it to Uni, it works just fine. I change it back to the one I was previously using and BAM.. blank page for index.php and the forums.

Still working on the forum one though....ugh

Chris

Fixed the issue with the forum now. Seems the new modules/forum/integrations/base/config.php was not using my template. So I re-uploaded a backup copy and it seems to be working now.

I guess the coding has issues using another template besides 'Uni'

Chris

exactly the same problem i have got now.. trying the solution that chris (zarcon) found.

thanks chris.

u are a life saver.

regards

mchauhan

Yeah I figured there will be some others that have the same issue when using a different template.

Glad I could help.

Chris

Chris good find, comparing the code of the new RC4 and RC3 the RC4 just doesn't have the two lines you added from RC3 code.

Looks like i have this problem also.

What i ending up having to do was to replace my scripts folder in my custom template with new copies from the RC4 uni template.

THE RIGTH FIX IS THE FOLLOWING:

copy BxTemplIndexPageView.php from uni to your template!

Thanks AlexT for the directions on how to resolve this properly. Your typing in caps seem to indicate a bit of frustration though :)

For those of us who had different templates, our site's homepage would not even load. Just a blank page. We just needed a quick fix, so I gave one until one could be provided by Boonex. This way our site was at least operational.

For the forum, i replaced my RC3 version of modules/forum/integrations/base/config.php with the RC4 one. My Forums went back blank again. I know this has something to do with the template because it will work if I switch back to uni. Could you provide the fix for that as well?

Chris

You are welcome :)

I just tried to make it more visible becuase there are a lot of other posts in this thread !

Regarding orca - try to reupload all orca files - there are more fixes in it... and try to recompile orca language file from orca. Also you can try to delete compiled files manually from orca and recompile it from the scratch

If you turn on error reporting, the problem with orca will be easy to spot.

Thanks HL, you would think that as many times I have told others to do that, I would have done it also. That did help to let me know that a folder with my template name needed to be in the modules/boonex/forum/layout/ directory.

Basically I create a folder and named it without the tmpl_ in front of it. Copied the contents of the uni_en from the same directory into the new template folder and BAM! it works. Oh but did also have to recompile the language :)

Thanks everyone.

Chris