[FIXED]Right Blocks Showing in NS, but not main site

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:36 pm

Hello,

I have a problem activating the right blocks and getting them to stay. I have searched this forum up, down, left and right for a solution; I even saw in one post the idea to add "[fixed]" to the search. All the solutions are at LEAST 3 years old, and have already been addressed with the latest release and patches.

I am using RN 2.30.01 and NS 2.6.02; this is a COMPLETELY dry install from the distro I downloaded from here. I have patched everything and installed everything to the "T" from ALL instructions. The ONLY thing I changed was the look of the CT_RN theme; just some graphics and fonts, but not the layout and created a new folder copying the original files to it and renaming it. I am also running on an IIS7 Windows Server w/ PHP 5.0/MySQL 5.0.

EVERYTHING WORKS PERFECTLY, BUT THE RIGHT BLOCKS!

When I access NukeSentinel(tm), I set the right blocks to "Show", save the changes, and when the page refreshes, the right blocks are visible. However, When I navigate away from the NukeSentinel Admin page the blocks dissappear? Confused

It is very perplexing. This also, happens with the original stock tthemes. I am new to PHP, came from a ASP.NET background, but am not sure what to check...

Any help would be greatly apreciated!

Sven2157

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:20 pm

OMG! I am such a n00b and so PO'd at myself! Embarassed

Thanks for looking at my post , those that have, but I figured out what was wrong.

I want my site's homepage to be very short, vertically, as all the content will be provided on the respective pages. So I added the "Legal Documents" module to the "Home Page".

After hours trying to get the right blocks back, I eventually screwed up the code; so bad I reinstalled....

When I did this the right blocks were back! Its a miracle! Then I started to add back the modules and blocks. When all of a sudden the right blocks dissappeared, again! This time I slowly went backwards, in my mind, about what I did. I realized the last thing I did was add the "Legal Docs Menu" back to the home page. When I switched it to something else, the right blocks came back!

I then realized that the module was programmed to be of a certain "Admin" page size, and not a 3 block size; it was pushing the right blocks off the screen! So, sorry for the bother!

I hope this helps other n00bs with the pursuit of learning RavenNuke....

Sven2157

Involved Joined: Jul 03, 2006 Posts: 273

Well I am glad you came back and posted what had happened and how you fixed it. Many people don't bother and there are a lot of people out there learning and might make the same mistakes and be lost but hopefully your post will help them. Good Job!

registered · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:36 am

sven2157, you certainly would not want the legal module itself to be in the Home position. So, I think you cleared that up. But, when you say this:

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I realized the last thing I did was add the "Legal Docs Menu" back to the home page

The legal menu HTML is stored in a constant called LGL_MENU_HTML. You simply need to echo that string constant out to the page wherever is appropriate within your theme code or possibly even within a block.

If you are still having issues placing the menu where you want it, feel free to post back to this thread more specifics on what you are wanting to do with it (i.e., how do you wish for it to be displayed).