[Documentation] Changing Theme and my Forum goes Bonk

EWorld

Hello,

i am new to Vanilla and i just installed my first forum. But everytime i try to activate an other theme besides the default one, i always getting this error:

Bonk Something funky happened. Please bear with us while we iron out the kinks.

Did something went wrong in the installation of vanilla? Or do i have to do something special?

i downloaded the themes from here, extracted the zipped file and copied the entire folder in the THEMES folder of vanilla.

Maybe someone can help me out.

thanks in advance

sarowlwp

open the forum debug

You can do this by adding/replacing the following configuration setting in your conf/config.php file:

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

you will see the error info !

kasperisager

Which version of Vanilla are you using and what theme did you download?

EWorld

I am using v2.0.18.4 and i tried for example the Bootstrap 0.9 the same happens if i set the theme to Embed-Friendly, Mobile ....

kasperisager

You should do as @sarowlwp suggests then and post the error message here for us to see :)

EWorld

Thanks Guys, i added sarowlwp suggestion to the config. and it showed, that the compile folder in the Smartys Folder wasnt readable. now it seems to work. thanks :)

UnderDog

WOW! 2 'I have Smarty and my site goes BONK' topics in 1 week. Must be a vacation week.
Both topics resulting in the suggestion : make cache folders / make them writable, etc, etc. Both topics solved... Niiice!