I love this theme. But I noticed when I put the login up top like how you have it - it's fine except for on the contact page. For some reason on that page the spaces for username & password are no longer side to side. They are top & bottom as if they were in a sidebar. For a fix I've simply got the login showing up only on the home page.
Also I tried to embed the gallery2 in. It's been one thing after another with it & in the end it still don't look right & I don't know how to fix it so I've undone the mod. But here's the thing...I had one browser page open & 2 tabs both going to my site. In one tab everything looked normal. In the other one everything was huge. I thought it was the gallery's style sheet tweaking with this one. But I noticed in one tab I had http://www.dawnswebdesigns.com/family/ & in the other http://dawnswebdesigns.com/family/ & that's what it was. www looks normal but without www it's huge. This was in Firefox. I also tried it in IE but they both look the same.
Other then this it's perfect. Thanks so much for it. :)
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Hi there, what theme are you having issues with? And can you please double check the URL above to make sure it loads the correct theme as I'm seeing a different non-TNT theme in its place. Thanks.
-Jeremy
Eternalistic Designs
www.eternalistic.net
Moved
Greetings. My site's still around...just switched it over a directory to http://dawnswebdesigns.com/family/site/
I'm using the Acquia theme & even in a different directory it's still the same. The login's messed up but only on the contact page. You won't be able to see it though cuz I've taken it off all pages but the front.
I gave up on Gallery 2.
But I do still notice...in Firefox...that when you click on http://www.dawnswebdesigns.com/family/site it's one way but http://dawnswebdesigns.com/family/site is another.
I'm not a programmer or anything but while I was looking at the htaccess file I noticed stuff in the top about websites being either http:// or http://www. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Plus I wonder why it don't happen in IE too.
But it's not just this theme. I didn't check out the login on another theme but I did check this out & it's the same thing. So it's drupal, the htaccess file or the server...or maybe Firefox.
Thank you for your reply. :)
Now I See
There are some differences. But I still don't think they're two separate sites. Not two different databases either because the content info is exactly the same. I could be totally wrong, but I don't think so. The Drupal .htaccess by default will redirect when using either http://sitecom or www.sitecom.
In fact, when you navigate to "Compose Tips", you'll see that then both are identical. Plus, they're both the same node id. At Stories, they're different. On the homepage, they're "almost" the same, except for one has the groups menu, the other doesn't.
Also, I know this may be a development ground or sandbox for your site, but I always shy away from running Drupal in a sub-directory as there always seems to be some type of issue popping up. If needed to do it this way, I would consider creating a subdomain and moving there rather than a subdirectory. But at this point, I don't think that's the real issue.
Here's what I suspect at this point:
After looking at some code, I see you're using the Boost module. I think there's a possibility that it may be causing the (or some of the) issues. Each version has a different cache time and date (05/07 and 05/08). Plus, the newer cached version contains more posts in (for example) "Stories". This leads me to feel more confident that Boost has some issue.
... and I also suspect that there may be an issue with your .htaccess. I honestly suspect that's where the problem lies. When using Drupal in a subdirectory (in fact, I think maybe you moved it to that directory?), you sometimes need to make some changes to the .hta file. If you initially installed in one directory, then moved to the current directory (/family/site), then you would've needed to change the base url in the .htaccess. Sometimes I've moved and didn't have to do this, other times I did. But in your case, it looks to be causing issues. Another thing that makes this seem more possible is that "About Us" and "FAQ" are not using clean urls... the rest of the menu and content is. That indicates a .htaccess config problem.
This may be alone, or in conjunction with and issue with the Boost config.
I've never used Boost, but I know there's some additional configuring that has to be done, like in the .htaccess. Honestly, I really don't see where you need Boost anyway. The site isn't heavy enough to facilitate the need for it. I think Drupal cache and aggregation would do fine for ya.
Here's what I'd try:
Disable the Boost module, disable any aggregation and caching, then clear all caches and see what you have. If it still doesn't work, try setting the base url in .htaccess to point to the current Drupal root (http://www.dawnswebdesigns.com/family/site). If there's still a problem, you should grab a fresh .htaccess from the current Drupal 6.16 download, delete your current one, upload then set base url.
If THAT doesn't work then we'll look further. Tommy and I have "brainstormed" before, so I think between the two of us, we'll figure it out for ya :)
Post back and let us know!
Chris
Hi!
You're using Acquia Slate. All themes from TNT are just that: Top Notch. I've always found their code to be excellent and modding is a snap thanks to their phenomenal css layouts! So definitely stay with TNT!
OK, I looked at both with and without www in FF and they both looked identical. Technically there's not two versions of your site so they really shouldn't "look" different (and you may already know this). One is actually a redirect. Yes, the .hta can control this, but so can your web server, so you may need to check it out if you still have problems with the look. But like I said, I checked both, not only in FF but also with Safari, Chrome and Opera and they all looked fine.
As for the login not showing up on the contact page: I suspected this has something to do with styling (though it still sounds a bit odd). Can you enable login on all pages so we can have a look and debug? Also make sure you keep css aggregation turned off while we look into it.
Oh yeah: Don't waste time with Gallery 2. I tried on many different client sites and could never get it working properly. And never fully understood what the problems was.
Chris
You have two different sites
You have two different sites from what I can tell.
Different menus, content and different things are broken on each.
Currently Dawn is logged in at dawnswebdesigns.com/family/site/ not the subdomain which would mean two different databases?
I find this very interesting. I would say it has nothing to do with the theme and everything to do with the Drupal install itself.
Actually I just noticed the subdaomain is cached look at the source
I am running out now but will look moire carefully later
Follow what Chris said you should be OK
Sorry about having to run before.
In my last post I just thought I would throw some things out there to get things rolling.
Well as I was said inclosing before, the front page (subdomain) is cached and and causing 2 different versions (not different sites as I stated in the beginning of my first post). This also is the cause of user I mentioned.
As you can see from the source code now that page should have expired.
I agree with Chris and think it's just a matter of the module. Not sure it was installed and configured properly. This includes htaccess and cron set up.
Did you follow the README.txt?
Are you testing this module or using it for a certain reason? If not I would just get rid of it.
Well if you follow what Chris said you should be good.
Oh one last question. Do you see any of this when you are logged in?
You shouldn't if you do you might have another problem
Good luck
Sorry I was sleeping
You guys are so cool. Very helpful bunch. :)
Just a lil background to answer your questions. I have a biz site @ dawnswebdesigns which is currently using WordPress. I have a help forum currently using phpbb. It was using vBulletin but that's another story.
I wanted a family site too. But a family site become 3. I used WordPress for our stories. And I started off with phpbb & gallery2. phpbb had a problem with mail. And I didn't think you could upload music & video files to gallery2. So I switched to SMF & coppermine. The bridge between the 2 didn't work after I put 2 SMF's on the same server sharing the same database...even though I changed their extensions. For one I had smffam_ & the other I had smfbiz_.
I have noticed drupal didn't give me the option to switch extensions. So I'm not exactly sure how I could have 2 drupals share the same server/database. I'm using myhosting.com...the cheap plan at that. But considering what I live on I'm doing good with this.
Anyway...I switched my biz forum from vBulletin to SMF to phpbb. But the bridge between the family SMF & Coppermine still don't work. The SMF's working a lil better but the bridge isn't.
In comes drupal & gallery2...again. But I didn't think about clean url's so I put it in just plain family. Then to turn on clean url's means to block the smf forum @ /family/forum that a few family members have actually joined & even posted a couple of things on. Which is why I had to move it from /family to /family/site. Cuz as you know most if not all of these mods require clean url's.
The bridge between drupal & gallery2 wasn't the only thing screwy. As you all know you have to edit the htaccess file to do the bridge. As it was I wasn't sure how to undo it. Plus like you say...if you move it you do have to change it. I don't like messing with that file to be honest. So the fact is...I already started over again. I deleted all drupal stuff from the database. Reuploaded several files including settings & all that. And I did it all over again...even though I lost several good jokes in this process.
But I was having these problems before & after the move. So maybe I didn't do something right with the htaccess file to begin with. I don't recall messing with it at all. Maybe I should've. So I just did. Where it says if your site's in another dir like http://yourname.com/drupal uncomment & edit the following. I switched it to /family/site. And uncommenting means removing the *. But I don't notice any change.
I've always seen the same site & the same theme. With www it's thinner & the letters are smaller. Without the www the pic's wide & the text is larger.
Now I'm having new problems. On the FAQ "page"...which is actually just a book...the bottom ad goes missing. Yesterday the copyright did too. But today at least it shows up. Maybe cuz I just changed the htaccess file? On the groups page...if you added a description it didn't stay in the middle container. It floated to the left & to the right. The login on the contact page is still messed up & I fixed it for you so you could see it. Also yesterday when I logged out I believe the top ad disappeared from the front page. The login appeared but the ad disappeared. But it appeared on every other page. However...today it's back again?
As for boost...my site was pretty slow which is why I got it...thought it would help. But I had a problem right off the bat. I had no cache folder. I had to create one then point it to it. But I have just uninstalled it. However...I could not untick the block cache. And I can't tick either one of the things under bandwidth optimizations. Also...should I switch minimum cache lifetime too? After changing the htaccess file & uninstalling/deleting boost the site's sped up quite a bit. At least there's that...whoo hoo! Thanks :)
Otherwise as you can see I was indeed trying to make a stories page. And I wanted categories on the side in a menu & I wanted those categories to state how many stories there were in the category. But the tutorial I stumbled across only taught me how to get the stories page. The menu for it looks exactly like the page...not the categories I wanted...or even tags for that matter. I've figured out how to add tags but not how to display them anywhere.
I wanted the blogs page to be about the same...more like wordpress. Monthly archives, categories & tags. And I thought with CCK & Views I could pull it off...which is why I got both. And of course they require other mods to work. I've ended up with a bunch of mods I didn't really want but the ones I do want require them.
I also wanted a gallery that looks like an actual gallery. I wish I could make one like Gallery2 or Coppermine...some albums public but some private. Plus a list of categories with the # of albums in each. Like for special occasions an album for weddings & one for reunions...etc. Then if you click on the category you should see all the albums within & the # of pics in each.
These readme files are next to impossible to understand. There are few tutorials on how to do various things. One person might use CCK/Views & one thing. Another one uses CCK/Views & another. After a couple of tutorials I probably got all kinds of stuff I don't need. But I wouldn't know what I need & what I don't need.
I'm going to re-add a description to the only group I've created in hopes you can see what that looks like. Maybe it somehow fixed itself by today too? But otherwise I'm lost.
Sorry for the book & thanks for your time. :)
You're on the right track
You are very welcome for the help. Tommy's great too, so I'm glad he chimed in!
Honestly, at this point, I would start over. But that doesn't mean you have to lose all your content or any changes you made to the theme. Here's why:
First, I would get out of the subdirectory. I've always seemed to have one problem or antoehr when setting up a totally different site that way. I don't know anything about myhosting, but if your plan allows subdomains, that's the direction I'd go. with a subdomain, Drupal sees it as a normal, first level domain (at least that's the luck I've always had). Overall, with a subdomain, things just seem to work better.
Assuming you CAN create subdomains, here's my advice:
Backup your database and download a compressed copy locally (jot down your database name and login info). Download your Slate theme locally as well. Make note of the mods you have installed.
Set it up (maybe family.dawnswebdesigns.com?), then grab a fresh Drupal 6.16 and do the usual stuff to install in the new subdomain (don't use Fantastico from within your hosting account since Fantastico creates and configures a new database for the new install).
When installing and configuring Drupal, enter your current database info (now you wont lose your work). Make sure everything runs smoothly and connects to the database.
Now, using ftp or your hosting accounts file manager, move your modules from the current family site to the newly created one. But move ONLY your added mods (from sites/all/modules) and do only like 5 at a time: Then test after each mod move to make sure it's all working ok. Keep going until you've moved all your added mods over.
Then if all goes well, upload your backed-up copy of your Acquia Slate theme. Activate and make sure all looks and acts fine.
You should then be good to go. Definitely avoid the Boost module. I've had friends who have had issues with it. And in all reality, I haven't seen a significance speed improvement in using it over Drupal's standard cache and aggregation. For example, one of my sites has around 400 active members, thousands of pages, images, and videos, some flash and lot's of Javascript... and I just use Drupal's built-in performance enhancements and have never had a performance problem (that was related to Drupal itself). Plus, it seems that Boost is more trouble than it's worth.
I think starting over would be the best bet, especially since you can use your current database and not lose your content.
As far as the bridge's:
Honestly, I've yet to see one single bridge that works 100% as intended. I'm using SMF for one forum with the Drupal bridge, and I still have constant issues. I just don't like them. But the forum is pretty large so right now, I have no choice. I installed my SMF in a sub-directory of the main domain.
I look into that more for ya. But in the meantime, I'd get the subdomain going and I can almost guarantee you that it will solve your problems.
And if you need direct help, I can jump in and do some admin stuff for you (I promise I won't mess anything up :). Just know the offer is there if you'd like the help.
Keep us updated on the progress... and feel free to email or send me a direct message if you need to.
Chris
No can do
I got the cheapest plan they got...& evidently on the old platform versus a new platform...whatever that means. Well what that means is I couldn't make a subdomain name. I think...even though I'm on the cheapest plan...if I was on their new platform I could?
It'll require a move & probably more money. Anyway I posted a bunch of questions on their forum.
I'd love the help. Cuz I've been a google searching fool & I'm here to tell you most of these tutorials are lacking. I haven't even really told anybody about this except sites like this where I'm reporting problems. I'm not allowing user registration. I was going to do all the damage I could do before I involved everybody else.
Cuz that's just it you all...we may have signed up for this but our users aren't signing up for it. So yeah I was going to do all the damage I could do before I ever opened the gates...if I ever open the gates. And if it's too much to move I wouldn't want you to waste your time. If we can never get it to work right I'll probably end up deleting it. Cuz I'm also getting errors like messaging php mailer, mime type detection & something about upload progress. Here again myhosting has something blocked where things that require upload progress won't work. And I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to download what from where & shove it where...ha ha ha ha. I can't even ask them to do something on my behalf...not even if I move up a plan. It's a security thing.
Well at least they're not deleting my drupal site. I have had that happen before. And no warning so no chance to back it up.
But if you'd like to join me in beating your head up against the wall...you're certainly welcome. I'm the only member. The only thing I have private is pics & that's only cuz I haven't figure out something better. But the pics are currently of a dog & cat. There's no real reason for this album to be private but I'm not sure how to set permissions for it separately. Lil things here & there...ahhhh. :-0
But...when we're done & I open the doors I'd have to demote you cuz my family's private. No offense or anything but they'd be pissed. So as long as you don't get yer feelings hurt or nothing...you're welcome. :)
Sure!
I certainly don't mind helping out. And no problem not being on the site when we're finished, I completely understand. I'm a designer as well, so I'm always looking for challenges to explore new problems that I may, at some point, encounter myself.
Without being too public here, I sent you a direct message with more info. We'll work around the subdomain thing. As a side note, you may wanna ask them about getting you on the updated platform/server/package. I'm with InMotion Hosting and that's what they did for me. They upgraded their plans and even though I had been on an old plan with limited bandwith for 4 years, they updated so I could get the new package with unlimited everything. They're awesome too!
Check your messages here on Drupal and we'll get going.
Chris
Wow this has has gotten
Wow this has has gotten huge.
It seems like you guys got everything under control. Just a couple of things. I think I read somewhere in here that you could or would use the same database so not to lose content. If you do reuse the DB make sure you uninstall the module not just remove the folder so you can get rid of all the useless tables.
If your host isn't helpful now and you haven't paid in advance why not move. http://drupal.org/hosting
As far as your site being deleted that's why I tell people back up, back up, back up. You should do it regularly. Especially databases.
Oh for your gallery try this I love it http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach
I do add thickbox to it for mine. As Eaton says it's tweaky but it works
Glad to see that your problems didn't chase you away from Drupal. Good luck guys