tarpon

This

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Worked great.

Gotta love the WP community, makes customizing your site a breeze.

I fixed my problem — it had to do with permissions. The major problem was SEL was turned on for httpd. I had to disable SEL, put the folders in the directories then turn it back on.

You should make sure all your files have the appropiate permissions.

OK I figured it out — the httpd SEL daemon for Red Hat AS4 was turned on. This prevented the folders from showing in the themes directory.

Disabling SEL allowed themes to work normally.

Someone may want to pass this on to the developers to find out what is up and how to work with SEL and themes.

If you want me to run any tests please advise.

bill

I left the default themes in the themes folder and took them out, made no difference.

I have a similar but not identical problem. I did a default install today and the blog works OK, I see no obvious errors.

But when I try and install a new theme, curiously I was trying to get a three column design as well, I can’t get it to register in the panel, it’s just not there. The two defaults work fine and I can switch between them.

As far as I know I am using only 1.5 ver themes from this site.

Here is a thread I started on the subject earlier today.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=27392#post-154223

I wish I could figure it out, I really wanted to use WP for my site.

I changed things added wx permissions to all files, still no go, deleted the directories and re-added the files, no go.

Anyone else want to take a try to help me out. I am at a loss as to why the theAmese don’t initialize.

[root@fishes default_allsidebar]# ls -l
total 168
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 181 Feb 23 23:59 404.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2512 Feb 23 23:59 archive.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 410 Feb 28 15:00 archives.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3935 Feb 23 23:59 comments.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 5367 Feb 23 23:59 comments-popup.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 20683 Mar 14 11:30 default_allsidebar.zip
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 602 Feb 24 00:00 footer.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3117 Feb 28 14:44 header.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 11:31 images
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1396 Feb 24 20:56 index.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 234 Feb 28 15:00 links.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 592 Feb 24 00:00 page.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 245 Feb 24 00:00 searchform.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1497 Mar 5 18:34 search.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3335 Feb 28 15:12 sidebar.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2735 Feb 28 14:46 single.php
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 9688 Feb 28 15:06 style.css

Here is just one folder — They all have r priveldeges

#ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 1025 1011 4096 Feb 17 05:14 classic
drwxr-xr-x 3 1025 1011 4096 Feb 17 05:14 default
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 14 11:31 default_allsidebar
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 users 4096 Mar 14 12:55 devenir_en_gris
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 2 14:44 Kubrick
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 7 03:37 rubric
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 14:47 simple-green

The curious thing is simple-green works like the originals.

Is the ownership of the files important? The themes folders I dropped in are not the same as the ones that were initially placed there. The new ones are root root the originals are 1025 1011.

Is that the magic incantation needed?

OK, that is how it’s set up — the complete theme is in the ‘theme’ directory and there is a style.css file in that directory as well. I cleaned out all the files and now there are just subdirectories.

SO I am back to as installed with some additional theme folders in the same dierectory as the default and the classic ones.

Yep they all have r-x priveledges, I am actually using a local host and running tests as root — and a local net connected user.

I just did a test and placed all the files for a couple of different themes in the ‘theme’ directory, one at a time, no folder, and it made no difference — the theme does not register in the ‘Current Theme’ panel.

The themes look like they have a full set of files, I downloaded them from the theme directory pointed to by the WP install wiki

I am not sure what you mean, I am just putting the theme’s folder that contains the theme in the same folder with the default themes.

If I do a ls -la on the directorythemes, all the theme folders are their, just like the default and clasic. Inside each of these folders is a complete set of files constituting a theme.

So the files look like ‘themes/default/style.css and ‘themes/rubric/style.css’ — so each theme resides in a folder one level down from the ‘themes’ folder. Duplicates how the default and classic theme are placed.