Ok, it's installed... what now?

[gerrymo]

Are you on the SMF Default theme (Core)?

Maybe your theme is a 1.07 theme? Yes, they are different again in some cases. They are available in the downloads section.

[usernamenumber]

Yeah, but then I switched to a TP theme with no change.

[gerrymo]

Yes. But there are SMF 1.07/TP themes, and there are SMF 1.1RC2/TP Themes. Confusing? Maybe, but there are template changes between 1.07 and RC2, so the TP themes have to be changed to work.

Here are the Themes for SMF1.1RC2/TP.
http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat76

[usernamenumber]

The theme I'm using is the SAF multicolor from this site, designed for 1.1 and TP.

I realize I'm no longer in TP teritory, but now I'm having another frustrating issue. I'm trying to do a fresh install of SMF 1.1rc2 in another directory to see if it goes any more smoothly. I uncompressed the tarball on my server and am running install.php. I fill out the form with info that I know is correct, hit Submit and.... am presented with the same install.php screen again. No errors in the browser or the server logs. Wtf? Help?

[gerrymo]

You need to be on a different Database, with different prefix for the tables to be sure there is going to be no conflicts.

[usernamenumber]

Yup. I did that. I'm using both a new datase and a different prefix. Ugh.

[gerrymo]

All files that need to be chmod to 777? Including the directory they are in?

[usernamenumber]

Ah. It turns out that, while the 0.7 tarball has write access for the group on all files, the 1.1 tarball does not. Instead of setting things 777 (that's really bad practice IMO) I'd been changing the group ownership of file to the user that httpd runs as. After granting g+w on the files all is well and the installation of TP on top of it has gone fine.

Thanks for the help. I'll post back if I need anything else. I can't thank you enough for the quick responses. I basically had a day to get this done or it would be a no-go. Looks like I have a chance now.

[usernamenumber]

..actually, one more question: What would it take to add a link to the top bar (the one with Forum, Help, Admin, etc) to a page of our designing, like an "About" page, that shows up in the center block (ie also showing the top bar, sidebars, etc)? Is that just a matter of altering the Theme or is there more to it? Are there docs that describe this?

[usernamenumber]

...oh, and what was the firefox/javascript issue you said you had to fix? I'd just as soon get it taken care of before I hear about it from a user.