TP V.096 questions (moved from translation help)

[G6Cad]

wrong index.php
Look in the forum ROOT folder

Try this file instead, Upload it to the forum ROOT

[Reality12]

Well, it's a new beginning, but now it's giving me the following error:

Warning: main(/home/XXXXXX/public_html/Settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/index.php on line 44

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/XXXXXX/public_html/Settings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/index.php on line 44

I'm assuming it can't find the settings page? If that's the case, anything else you can help with?

[JPDeni]

Looks like you need to start over and install the whole kit and kaboodle again.

Empty everything out of your directory (unless you have some subdirectories that you want to keep that have nothing to do with SMF/TP). Install SMF. Install TP. Install whatever your mods are.

[Reality12]

yeah, doesn't sound like something i want to do honestly, not with all the information on the forum as it stands now or as active as it is. this is almost 2 years of material. can i create a redirect maybe? any ideas besides that?

[G6Cad]

Im not sure what you have done right now.
But eather are the settings.php and settings.bak.php missing totally from your forum root folder or they dont have the correct permissions.

If they are missing (most likly as you didnt even have the index.php file there) download the SMF full install package.
Extract the package and then upload all the files from it to your forum, replace all the other files.

Then download the manual tp package from the download section here, and follow the same steps, extract, upload and replace the files.

then download the premade files from here http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9632.0;attach=6630
Again the same steps, extract, upload and overwrite

Now to the important part.

Download the repair_settings.php from simplemachines.org (downloads tools) and upload that files to your forum root.
point your browser to the file (http://www.yourdomain.com/smf/repair_settings.php) and follow the steps the file show you.
That will both give you all fresh files on SMF and TP, but also it will keep your DB intact

[Reality12]

G6: My forum and all it's contents are installed into a folder called "forums." It's been that way since I first installed SMF and then TP. All files are there, not in my "root" directory.

With your instructions, are you asking me to install SMF and TP into the root directory? If I do this, will it link to the existing data in the "forums" folder or will it be a different forum altogether?

[G6Cad]

Read again...   FORUM ROOT folder

the very place you come when you open up the FORUM forlder is the ROOT of your FORUM