themes from spartacus doesnt change after applying

[zee_luzer]

Hi,

The theme/styles that came with installation works, but themes with spartacus doesn't work after i applied them. The default theme is shown instead. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It might be that spartacus does not properly work on your install. Which theme did you try to install? Is the directory downloaded to your 'templates' directory?=

Does your 'templates' directory have write privileges, so that s9y can write to it (i.e. 777)?

Regards,
Garvin

[zee_luzer]

I did not alter any write privilege settings, I am assuming it has write privileges.

I tried a few themes that became available after I installed spartacus, they didn't work.

How can i know if spartacus is properly installed?
I am going to try remove and install the plugin again.

Thanks.

[judebert]

I did not alter any write privilege settings, I am assuming it has write privileges.

This is not necessarily a good assumption, and if incorrect, could lead to the problems you're seeing.

Serendipity (and SPARTACUS) run as your webserver user, whatever that might be. Your FTP program runs as you. So permissions could be set up to allow you to modify files (for instance, through FTP), but not allow the webserver to modify the files.

If you check your templates/ directory, has the template been downloaded? It should have a new directory all to itself. If not, s9y will "fallback" to the default theme. It would also indicate that SPARTACUS couldn't create the directory, and probably doesn't have write privileges. Try changing the permissions on the templates/ directory to 770, which will allow everyone in the same group to write to the directory. (It's possible that the webserver is in the same group as you, and these permissions are not extremely permissive.)

If that doesn't work, try to change permissions on the templates/ directory to 775. That allows everyone to write to the directory. But most hack attempts will be locked out in earlier directories; the only danger is if someone finds a way to hack Serendipity (not likely) or your webserver (also not likely, especially if it's Apache) to write a file.

[zee_luzer]

It worked after i changed it to 777 from 755
Thanks

[judebert]

I've seen some webservers that don't allow 777. Perhaps that's what happened to you.

Glad it's working!