Admin > Tools > Template Selection = blank screen?

[billmads]

Hi Forum,
I just installed Zen Cart 1.3.7 without much trouble. I then configured my store, realizing I have some learning about the business side of things. When I try to create my on templates and go to admin-tools-template selection all I get is a blank screen. If I do a 'View Source' I also get a blank screen. Looking at http://localhost/zencart/admin/template_select.php, it has 251 lines of php and html code.
template_select.php permission 777
/admin/ permission 755
My system is Fedora Core 6 kernel 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6xen
php version 5.1.6
MySql version 5.0.27
Apache 2.2.3
Firefox 1.5.0.9


My thanks in advance

[Kim]

First thing to try is reupload the whole admin directory overwriting all of the files.

[billmads]

Kim, thanks for the quick reply, but after uploading the admin directory I still had the same problem.
Looking at the logs showed me this;

[FONT=Courier New, monospace][error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/html/zencart/includes/templates/my_template/template_info.php on line 14, referer: http://localhost/zencart/admin/index.php[/FONT]

well, you don't know how many times or how long I look at ~/my_template/template_info.php - line 14. It turns out that when I was editing the file, I blew away the ending single quote mark {'} on line 13.

Now the server logs are without [error] messages but...

[FONT=Courier New, monospace][alert] [client 127.0.0.1] /var/www/html/zencart/admin/includes/.htaccess: order not allowed here, referer: http://localhost/zencart/admin/templ...=1&action=save[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New, monospace][alert] [client 127.0.0.1] /var/www/html/zencart/admin/includes/.htaccess: order not allowed here, referer: http://localhost/zencart/admin/login.php[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New, monospace][alert] [client 127.0.0.1] /var/www/html/zencart/admin/includes/.htaccess: order not allowed here, referer: http://localhost/zencart/admin/index.php[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New, monospace][alert] [client 127.0.0.1] /var/www/html/zencart/admin/includes/.htaccess: order not allowed here, referer: http://localhost/zencart/admin/[/FONT]

and this is after I renamed ~/admin/includes/.htaccess to ~/admin/includes/htaccess_off, no preceding {.}.

After I log-in to admin, I'm taken to a very plain screen with the “powered by Zen Cart”, the date and time in the upper left and “Your version of Zen Cart™ appears to be current.” with menu “Admin Home | Online Catalog | Support Site | Version | Logoff “ in the upper right. Below this is a long list of links, starting with “Configuration” with subcategories of “My Store, Minimum Values...” all the way down to “Extras” with subcategories. When I click on a link I have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page.

This doesn't seem right. What does the server logs mean by “[FONT=Courier 10 Pitch].htaccess: order not allowed here[/FONT]”?

Once again thanks!

[ejeffay]

i also have the same problem....i followed the steps in the FAQ and tried making the directories in order to make my own template.....when i got to the step that says to enter the 'tools->template selection' page..i got a blank page.....i reuploaded everything and nothing has changed..its still blank....

[TheOracle]

unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/html/zencart/includes/templates/my_template/template_info.php on line 14

From the mentionned file, could you post it's content (between php bbcode) here ? Sounds like a typo issue error.

[ejeffay]

umm all i have written in my template_info.php file on line 14 is

$template_description = 'This template was created June 02, 2007 for Abbas Jeffay's website www.ljsewing.com.';