Having trouble finding specific answer - TP not working

[LemnisCate8]

  Hi and thank you in advance for your help.

Today I intstalled TinyPortal.  All was fine initially.  When I signed back in  to my SMF forum, (2.0.3), it was no longer working, even though it shows as being installed correctly.  What can I do to return it to proper function?

[Maxx1]

Hello!

This sounds very strange,  could you offer more details and how you installed the TP portal trough your package manager?

or possibly give Brad or someone the url to your site to see what's up... something does not sound right there!

or if you updated to 2.0.3 then you will need to re install the TP MOD!

regards,
Maxx

[LemnisCate8]

Thank you so much, as it turns out, I did just that, I re-intstalled it.  Now it's working just fine.  So that is what had happened then, the update  interfered with things I suppose.  Cheers.

[lurkalot]

or if you updated to 2.0.3 then you will need to re install the TP MOD!

Thank you so much, as it turns out, I did just that, I re-intstalled it.  Now it's working just fine.  So that is what had happened then, the update  interfered with things I suppose.  Cheers.

Shouldn't have to if you're just updating from SMF 2.0.2 to SMF 2.0.3 using the upgrade link in the admin panel.  or using the update from here this only takes a few seconds to do.  TP should work fine tbh.

@ LemnisCate8 How did you upgrade, just out of interest?

[LemnisCate8]

Uhm, well I had this strange thing happen.  I only said I believed it was the upgrade because it is working fine now (I assumed the long, drawn out explanation unnecessary).  I suppose I had better tell the story I was trying to avoid, lol.  I didn't want to try your patience as a newbie, thus the white lie.

I had upgraded the forum via the install package.  And then... I am new to working with cPanel and accidntally deleted my blog.  When the technician for the webhosting company re-installed my blog from backup, the TinyPortal in my forum no longer worked.  I had only installed it the day before.  My forum address is http://forum.binahtarot.com.  I have it working now, but had to re-install it.  I am not sure at all what happened.  It would be nice to know that it wouldn't happen again. 

By the way, I haven't done anything with TP yet as I haven't had time since it was re-installed.

Oh, sorry, I just noticed that I am not supposed to put the link here.  Can a mod delete it when done, or... Sorry again.   

[lurkalot]

Uhm, well I had this strange thing happen.  I only said I believed it was the upgrade because it is working fine now (I assumed the long, drawn out explanation unnecessary).  I suppose I had better tell the story I was trying to avoid, lol.  I didn't want to try your patience as a newbie, thus the white lie.

I had upgraded the forum via the install package.  And then... I am new to working with cPanel and accidntally deleted my blog.  When the technician for the webhosting company re-installed my blog from backup, the TinyPortal in my forum no longer worked.  I had only installed it the day before.  My forum address is http://forum.binahtarot.com.  I have it working now, but had to re-install it.  I am not sure at all what happened.  It would be nice to know that it wouldn't happen again. 

By the way, I haven't done anything with TP yet as I haven't had time since it was re-installed.

Oh, sorry, I just noticed that I am not supposed to put the link here.  Can a mod delete it when done, or... Sorry again.   

Thanks.  That makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.  Nice to know it's not something wrong with TP.

Enjoy TP,   Merry Christmas to you. 

[LemnisCate8]

Thanks, what a wonderful, helpful crew here. 

Blessings, and a Merry Christmas to all!

[ZarPrime]

Hi LemnisCate8,

Welcome to the TP Support Site.

I had upgraded the forum via the install package.  And then... I am new to working with cPanel and accidntally deleted my blog.  When the technician for the webhosting company re-installed my blog from backup, the TinyPortal in my forum no longer worked.

...

Oh, sorry, I just noticed that I am not supposed to put the link here.  Can a mod delete it when done, or... Sorry again.   

No, giving a link to your site is actually a good thing because sometimes it's the best and quickest way for us to help you.  In fact, you should probably take a look at our Posting Guidelines, especially where it asks for the following information when asking for support ...

Link to my site: http://www.yourdomain.com
SMF version: SMF ver. here
TP version: TP ver. here
Default Forum Language: Your Default Forum Language here
Theme name and version: Theme name here
Browser Name and Version: Browser name/version here
Mods installed: Mods listed here
Related Error messages: Error message here

It appears that your host restored everything, not just your blogs, because your site seems to still be on SMF 2.0.2.  In any case, if your blogs and TinyPortal are all working correctly, I probably wouldn't worry about it too much though you should still be able to upgrade to SMF 2.0.3 in the manner that Lurkalot mentioned, unless, for some reason, your blogs haven't been upgraded for SMF 2.0.3.  Are your blogs an SMF Mod or is there some other way that those are enabled?

Anyway, I do see one minor problem.  If you look at the very bottom of your site, where the SMF and TintPortal copyrights are located, the TinyPortal copyright and the SMF copyright are occupying the same space (overwriting each other).  Do you see that?  That's an easy fix.

You can fix the problem by changing the line-height in the #footerarea ul li.copyright in the css from 0 to 1.  That is located on about line 1285 in the backnblack202 css file at this location --> YourSite.com/Themes/backnblack202/css/index.css

You can fix it by doing what Crip mentioned below ...

This bit here takes care of the overlap ..
css/index.css Find::

Code (Find This) Select Expand


#footerarea ul li.copyright
{
display: block;
line-height: 0;
font-size: small;
padding: 1em;
}


Then you go Like::

Code (Change to This) Select Expand


#footerarea ul li.copyright
{
display: block;
line-height: 1;      /* SEE */
font-size: small;
padding: 1em;
}


ZarPrime

[LemnisCate8]

Thanks for all the help ZarPrime;

It would likely have taken me some time to figure out that the upgrade had been removed.  I will upgrade it again, as suggested.  Also, yes, I was wondering about that copyright overlap thing.  It will take me a few days to get time, but  thanks for giving me a clear outline on how to do it.

As for my blog, I run it on WordPress and have the Forum and Blog connected by link only.  It works for me.  I don't know if I can get away with asking this here, but does anyone have any reasoning to offer me as to any reason I shouldn't do that (I mean link my forum and website by link rather than CMS)?  That is if anyone thinks it's not a good idea.  I just didn't feel up to working with a content management system, although the option remains open.  I am obviously truly green at Web publishing and don't know if there is any great advantage to pulling the whole thing together with a CMS.

Blessings.

[ZarPrime]

Thanks for all the help ZarPrime;

No problem.

As for my blog, I run it on WordPress and have the Forum and Blog connected by link only.  It works for me.  I don't know if I can get away with asking this here, but does anyone have any reasoning to offer me as to any reason I shouldn't do that (I mean link my forum and website by link rather than CMS)?  That is if anyone thinks it's not a good idea.  I just didn't feel up to working with a content management system, although the option remains open.  I am obviously truly green at Web publishing and don't know if there is any great advantage to pulling the whole thing together with a CMS.

TinyPortal allows you to create a CMS and is really only limited by your imagination.  As for putting a link on your Forum for your blogs, there is really no reason why you can't do this and TinyPortal kind of makes it pretty easy for you to setup links using the built-in menu manager in TP.  If you haven't looked at the slideshow on the frontpage (Home link) of our site here, you might want to take a look at it.  One of the slides shows the menu manager in action.  It allows you to setup links right in a TinyPortal block and is not too difficult to figure out.  If you have trouble figuring out how to create links with it, you can always ask about it here but it's fairly straightforward.

You can see a TP menu in action at Crip's site.  The title of the block is "CZ Friends" and it's in the left panel --> http://www.jpr62.com/theme/index.php?action=forum

For now, I'll mark this topic solved and if you have any more questions, feel free to start another topic here in the support board.

ZarPrime