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Development => Support => Installation => Topic started by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 07:57:55 PM

Title: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 07:57:55 PM
I´ve finally managed to install "Tinyportal" to my smf-forum, but i can´t see any difference. Have i done something wrong, or do i have to change something to see/use the portal-function!?
I don´t even have a option for tinyportal in my admincp.

(I´m using the outline theme.)

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: G6Cad on November 24, 2007, 09:23:47 PM
Always use the default theme ONLY when you install mods, if you change your forum to show the SMF default Core theme, does TP show up for you then ?
If not, you need to read in our docsection for how to manually install TP.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 09:28:49 PM
I re-installed tinyportal with default theme enabled.
The installation went fine, (same as the first time), but i can´t see the section for tinyportal in admincp.

(see screens)
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: G6Cad on November 24, 2007, 09:32:45 PM
Please read th sticky topics, there might just be the answers you are looking for ;)
Or read the documentation we have in the DOC
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=16356
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 09:41:38 PM
Quote from: G6 on November 24, 2007, 09:32:45 PM
Please read th sticky topics, there might just be the answers you are looking for ;)
Or read the documentation we have in the DOC
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=16356
I have allready tried the "thing" regarding "Missing Text", but that didn´t help.
It seems that i´m missing some of the files and folders from the tp-release in my forum directory. How can that be, when the installation seemed to go fine!?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 10:23:49 PM
Quote from: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 09:41:38 PM
Quote from: G6 on November 24, 2007, 09:32:45 PM
Please read th sticky topics, there might just be the answers you are looking for ;)
Or read the documentation we have in the DOC
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=16356
I have allready tried the "thing" regarding "Missing Text", but that didn´t help.
It seems that i´m missing some of the files and folders from the tp-release in my forum directory. How can that be, when the installation seemed to go fine!?
Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: bluedevil on November 24, 2007, 10:38:39 PM
Did you changed from "EnglishUTF-8" to "English"? in:

admin-->configuration-->server settings-->Default Forum Language
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 10:39:48 PM
Quote from: bluedevil on November 24, 2007, 10:38:39 PM
Did you changed from "English-UTF8" to "English" in:

admin-->configuration-->server settings-->Default Forum Language

I don´t have "English-UTF8", only "English", but yes i changed to english.

EDIT: But as i wrote above, it seems that i´m missing a few files and folders.
It seems that the install-script doesn´t work as it should, or maybe there are some other strange things happening.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 24, 2007, 11:22:59 PM
If you know they are missing, did you try to put them in and see if it fixes your problem?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 24, 2007, 11:59:28 PM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 24, 2007, 11:22:59 PM
If you know they are missing, did you try to put them in and see if it fixes your problem?
Hehe, yes, i tried that before, but without any luck.
I did a manuall install instead and it finally seems to work.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 25, 2007, 01:05:00 AM
One other thing... how can i use a different language (swedish)?
I have allready uploaded the swedish language files (both swedish and swedish-utf) for TP into my theme directory, but it doesn´t seems to work. All text for the portal is only shown when i change to swedish, but the text isn´t "formated" to international characters. If i change to swedish-utf, all text are gone. Why is that?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 25, 2007, 06:41:11 PM
Quote from: BT-loader on November 25, 2007, 01:05:00 AM
One other thing... how can i use a different language (swedish)?
I have allready uploaded the swedish language files (both swedish and swedish-utf) for TP into my theme directory, but it doesn´t seems to work. All text for the portal is only shown when i change to swedish, but the text isn´t "formated" to international characters. If i change to swedish-utf, all text are gone. Why is that?
Any help here would be great.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 25, 2007, 11:08:21 PM
Did you put the files into the Themes/default/languages folder?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 04:42:25 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 25, 2007, 11:08:21 PM
Did you put the files into the Themes/default/languages folder?
No, but in Themes/default/outline, that´s the theme i´m using.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 26, 2007, 04:49:24 AM
Then you should put them where I asked as that is where all language files are supposed to go except custom modification.language files.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 04:56:16 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 26, 2007, 04:49:24 AM
Then you should put them where I asked as that is where all language files are supposed to go except custom modification.language files.
Hmm, ok...  i have uploaded the languages to the folder you said, but that didn´t help. It´s the same as before, the utf language doesn´t show for tp, and the original swedish for tp doesn´t show international characters. :(

I can´t understand why the utf language (for tp) doesn´t work.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 26, 2007, 05:28:44 AM
Can I have a look? PM details if you'd like me to look at it.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 05:30:00 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 26, 2007, 05:28:44 AM
Can I have a look? PM details if you'd like me to look at it.
Look for what, the site in general, or in admin cp?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 26, 2007, 05:36:09 AM
Actually forget about that. My laptop is going dead and its time to hit the sack. I was offering to look at your problem to see what was wrong. Whether that required admin/ftp or whatever. I'll try to check on you tomorrow.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 05:40:14 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 26, 2007, 05:36:09 AM
Actually forget about that. My laptop is going dead and its time to hit the sack. I was offering to look at your problem to see what was wrong. Whether that required admin/ftp or whatever. I'll try to check on you tomorrow.
Ok, i have sent pm with the link.  ;)
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: MagiAwen on November 26, 2007, 03:30:07 PM
BT -  Are you using a Swedish server?

This is my first install of SMF with TP on a Swedish server.  I have done this many many times on american servers and have never had a problem.

I have had nothing but problems this time around.
First, my TP install throught he SMF admin went fine, except I could not see any TP admin.

I only have English as a language selection as well and I am using the default theme.

I noticed that after the install ALL of the TP files for the sources and themes directories had a size of zero, so I went through and manually uploaded all of them.

I also checked mySQL and all my tables were installed...I recieved no errors in the package manager.

But still I have no Tiny Portal Admin.  It's not a "missing text" issue, utf8 is not on my server..never was...and I have nothing showing anywhere.

I have been going through files one by one and can't find what I am missing or what the heck happened. 

It doesn't matter if I use the default theme or not..it shows up no where...without errors...oddest thing.

I keep suspecting there is something funky about my Swedish server :D

Oh.. I am running the forum on https currently... but this is the fourth time I've scrapped the install of both of these and started over... I have tried twice with http and twice with https...the same issue no matter what I do it seems.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 03:35:55 PM
What do you mean by "swedish server"? My server is in Sweden, but all programs is in english.
I really don´t think that this has something to do with the "utf" problem.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: MagiAwen on November 26, 2007, 03:46:43 PM
erm well I don't think it's a utf problem.  All I am saying is that that is the only difference between my installs.

I took the smf and tp packages that I installed on this new server in sweden and installed the exact same ones on my server in california and guess what? it all went fine.  I am wracking my brain to see what the dang differences are, that's all.

I agree it doesn't make much sense but I noticed that this swedish server I am on seems to be configured a bit differently than others I have used as far as paths go.

Whether or not your control panel or programs installed are in swedish or not really doesn't matter.

So far the only major difference that I can see is the mySQL version...but I don't know that that would make this issue happen either.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 03:50:09 PM
Ok! Well, i don´t think there are problems with my config either, but it´s a really wierd problem.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: MagiAwen on November 26, 2007, 03:53:27 PM
have you checked your TP files that the package manager installed?  See if their size count is zero.

I agree it's an odd problem.

Right now I'm doing a manual install with this  http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=14195

Only thing is that that documentation is for smf 1.1.2 and I'm on 1.1.4

To tell you the truth...I am thinking that the higher security on this server is my issue...I think it does some path obfuscation or some such...I had a lot of problems with errors for a while and finally got it to install...just to find that nothing shows up lol.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: MagiAwen on November 26, 2007, 04:31:33 PM
Perfect.  That worked in my case.

For whatever reason I did not have to modify the theme files, they were already done.

But (again for whatever reason) when the package manager installed the thing...all the extracted files were present, however there was nothing in them...basically a bunch of named files...somewhat retarded.

I uploaded everything manually after the package install and then went through the Mod instructions in my previous post, except for in the theme files because when I looked at them I saw that the instructed mods were already in place.

Uploaded... works perfectly.  YAY! :)

Hope this info helps someone else as well.

**For the record... I have had to do every single addon this way this time as well.  And the only difference in what I am doing between these two servers is where the servers are located and with different companies and I believe on the Swedish server I am using mySQL 5 instead of 4.  Whether or not this all makes a difference, I'm not sure...but it really seems like it's the server and not the software...as if something is not quite configured right somewhere along the line...but that I don't have access to, if  you get me.

Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 27, 2007, 07:34:59 AM
Quote from: BT-loader on November 26, 2007, 05:40:14 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 26, 2007, 05:36:09 AM
Actually forget about that. My laptop is going dead and its time to hit the sack. I was offering to look at your problem to see what was wrong. Whether that required admin/ftp or whatever. I'll try to check on you tomorrow.
Ok, i have sent pm with the link.  ;)
Hmm.. it seems that i can´t answer on pm:s or write new ones, all of the sudden. Why is that?
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: Zetan on November 27, 2007, 06:49:23 PM
Quote from: BT-loader on November 27, 2007, 07:34:59 AM
Hmm.. it seems that i can´t answer on pm:s or write new ones, all of the sudden. Why is that?

The Team, IchBin has made a permissions change to the PM system after some members started receiving some unwanted email.

You now need 20 posts to use the PM system.


I'll mention this in the Team boards, and see if one of the Admin can make an announcement.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 28, 2007, 01:38:37 AM
Should be fixed. Now set for 5 post minimum.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 28, 2007, 02:43:53 PM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 28, 2007, 01:38:37 AM
Should be fixed. Now set for 5 post minimum.
Thanks for that. I allready have 15 posts, so i was almost there.  ;)
I have answered on your pm.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: IchBin on November 29, 2007, 12:19:55 AM
You have, but I think you didn't read mine for what I requested if you want further help.
Title: Re: Can´t see/use the portal-function
Post by: BT-loader on November 29, 2007, 02:48:16 AM
Quote from: IchBinâ,,¢ on November 29, 2007, 12:19:55 AM
You have, but I think you didn't read mine for what I requested if you want further help.
I´m not sure to give out ftp-details at this point, sorry.
I don´t think you can find anything "wrong" there anyhow.