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    Posted by michaelinnc84

    I changed my theme trying to figure out which one I liked best and my whole site went blank and I can't get into to admin to change it back. Is there anyway I can change my theme from FTP? Please help as my website is inaccessible until this problem is fixed. I appreciate any and all help.

    Thanks,
    Michael

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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro Catalan Countries

    Michael, go to your database with phpmyadmin or similar, look in your tiki_preferences table (or similar), and look for any *.css record. You'll find where in the database is stored that selection you made. Delete that record.
    Tiki will use tikineat.css or tikinewt.css instead, and your tiki will be back up again.

    Remember to dissallow your users to select those themes which are not ready for your tiki version.

    Afaik, new Tiki version will come with a shorter set of theme included, all them working to that release, etc.

    HTH

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    Posted by michaelinnc84

    Thanks so much for your help. It worked. The theme that broke my site was akwa.css

    I appreciate your help!! How do I make sure users can't change the theme?

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    What Tiki version is your site using? The Akwa theme works with older versions (it's not in 1.9.11 so I'm not sure when it stopped being included) but not with version 2.0.

    Probably CSS files other than those that came with the 2.0 install files should be removed from your styles/ directory. That is, older themes shouldn't be kept in the directory unless you know they work with the new Tiki version. Alternatively, there is a "Restrict available themes" admin option on the login admin page (tiki-admin.php?page=login).

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro Catalan Countries

    Hi Michael:

    Could you help us and improve the Documentation to explain this, if not explained in whatever page/s you think it should be explained?

    Thanks in advanced! smile

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    Posted by gdville

    Same problem, recently upgraded to 9.0 LTS, was playing with themes. I believe it was a 4.3 version of milkyway that caused the blank screens.

    So, I went into MySQL and deleted the record for style, but now instead of blank screen, I get http 500 error. I went back and inserted a new style record set to jqui.css (same as before when it worked). I've recopied the 9.0 files via FTP, and tried to rerun setup, but that screen and all others result in the http 500 error.

    My php memory limit is 128M.

    Help!

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    Posted by Torsten Fabricius Germany

    Hi,

    I assume, your ISP runns on linux and uses Apache

    1 ) check, if _htaccess is renamed to .htaccess.

    If yes, good; if no, please do so

    2 ) in this .htaccess file find the lines:

    1. increase memory (default is 128M). Use this if you are getting blank pages and strange errors
    2. php_value memory_limit 256M


    must be about line 79 and 80

    delete the scond hash to uncomment and activate the higher meḿory limit:

    php_value memory_limit 256M

    => check if that solves the problem (maybe, maybe not)

    3 ) enter the FTP (Tiki root) and delete one empty file (the lockfile in the folder /db)

    /db/lock

    4 ) enter the installer yourdomain.com/tiki-installer.php

    enter with your database credentials and see, if you can click through the installer -> in the end (if you could access the installer, "enter and lock") then come back to the forum and report, IF .htaccess/memorylimit solved the problem, respectively if you could access the installer

    => And I am not sure, if you deleted the right MySQL entry - we'd have to confirm that later on

    Good luck
    Torsten

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    Posted by gdville

    Thanks, Torsten.

    My host has to go in from their end to change memory limit. Just did this a few days ago (it was at 32M, believe it or not).

    Anyway, after deleting all files and folders via ftp, recopying, and reinstalling, things appear to be normal again.

    I suspect that the following statement should be revised from:

    "look in your tiki_preferences table (or similar), and look for any *.css record. You'll find where in the database is stored that selection you made. Delete that record."

    to:
    look in your tiki_preferences table (or similar), and look for any *.css record. You'll find where in the database is stored that selection you made. Delete the value.

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