beginner question ravennuke uploaded but cannot see forum

New Member Joined: Jul 15, 2009 Posts: 12

sorry i'm a but new to this, i have installed ravennuke everything that was in the html folder has gone up on my root directory, gone through the process of linking to database and then deleting the installation file, then gone into admin and made forum active - however when i click on the forums button i get this message

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not open forums template config file

DEBUG MODE

Line : 503
File : functions.php

do i have to upload a forum folder to my website and if so where can i get the download. my website is www.oldliners.co.uk

thanks

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:24 am

There are different reasons for this error.I had this issue a time before also because I used an other theme and the database told me something different.
Please upload your default theme and forums files again. Its easy to fix this.
For your info see this also:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/forums/could-not-open-template-config-file-vt24499.html

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:01 pm

ive done both checked that subSilver is correct named which it is and still iget the same message Sad

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:09 pm

been checking all night still getting same error :9

this is the address it links too at the top

http://www.oldliners.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:34 pm

I can take a look and fix this for you if you are not able to do this but did you uploaded the files again ?
PM your ftp PW and Database PW.

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:14 am

you should have a pm thanks

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:52 am

I have fixed this also a PM is on the way !
Have a nice day ! Wink

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:25 am

Can you say what the problem and fix were.

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:26 am

the forum.cfg file was missing

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

toadus, thanks for following up, and welcome to the RavenNuke community!

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:23 am

Best practice is to activate error logging and change the display errors to true in config.php and in rnconfig to $error_reporting = E_ALL; // because sometimes there are issues with ftp and not all files are uploaded and therefore such and similar errors occur.