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Joomla Kickstart Restore – Blank White Page

19 April 2018
Grimey
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Categories: Chronoforms, Godaddy, Hosting, Joomla, Joomla Extension, Uncategorized

Moved site from Localhost to Godaddy hosting and after I restored the site I got a completely blank screen in both the front end and backend. The source was completely blank.

I found this on OSTraining.com that let me see the errors by editing the “configuration.php” file in the CPanel. I changed “public $error_reporting = ‘development’;”.

https://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/white-screen-of-death/

I was now getting an error.

Error:
/home/myaccount/public_html/plugins/system/chronoengine_gcore2/chronoengine_gcore2.php on line 65

I recently upgraded the Chronoforms from version 5 to 6 while keeping 5 around. Their website said this was okay to do.

The site was working fine and this error seem to happen because of the restore. The restore was done through Akeeba Kickstart.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/akeeba-backup-3x/Ticket/27368-fatal-error-when-restoring-website.html

The end results was file permissions. My hosting account wouldn’t let me select a different PHP version. I had to contact tech support and they were surprised and had to go up to teir 3 to get it resolved. They determined it my CPanel account that was having permission issues to allow me to change the PHP version.

Once that was changed I was still unable to access the sites. I could put a HTML file there but couldn’t run any PHP. The folder permissions on the public folder needed to be reset to “750”. My sub-domain directories needed to be set to “755”. Godaddy said if I right-click on the folder I could change the permissions myself.

 

I hope this helps someone else out there….

 

Theme cannot be used Gantry Hydrogen WordPress Site

18 April 2018
Grimey
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Categories: Gantry, WordPress

I love blogging in WordPress, but often like Joomla to build sites. I have been playing around with Gantry’s Hydrogen template in Joomla and have been using it to build a new site for myself. My blog is in WordPress and would like the two site to look a like.  Gantry’s Hydrogen is totally free and works for both systems.

I installed it on my new test WordPress site that I had already installed Divi and got some administration error, so I uninstalled it and tried it on a  fresh copy and got the same “Theme cannot be used. For more information, please see the notice in administration.” I knew it wasn’t just Divi being installed on the other site.

If I would have read the install directions on the following page I would have installed the theme properly. Instead I watched the video on the page and it was installing in a Joomla site so I blew it off.  There was a button for “wordpress”.

http://docs.gantry.org/gantry5/basics/installation

  • First install the plugin from the WordPress dashboard plug-ins by searching for “Gantry”. I installed Gantry 5.
  • Then move the theme into the themes folder and activate it.

I hope this helps someone else out there….

 

Joomla Extension For Pop Ups

6 April 2018
Grimey
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Categories: Joomla Extension

Some websites do a great job of getting your attention for a product but gives the user the power to get rid of the popup at their leisure.

I stumble upon this site where the developer has created an awesome “engage” box extension. Click below to see what I mean.

https://www.tassos.gr/joomla-extensions/engagebox

In the “Demos” box use the drop-down to see all the different types of popups there are.

I hope this helps someone else out there….