anyway, you were right, and dana was wrong to add confusion by labelling it as both theme and template, and i was stupid enough to be confused. anyway, onwards.

so i deleted the dana thing as a template.
i uploaded the dana in them folder.
i selected the 7dana as theme in general preferences.

but white screen comes back.
i run recovery php and it says
Notice [PHP]: Undefined index: session_expire in file recovery.php line 77

ive already looked through the helpfiles and made sure:
mainfile php is on 444,
ive already reuploaded recovery php
ive already checked the file/directories to be made 777.

(well apparently, this has turned from a help me thread,to a : hope this helps the others with the same problems- thread)

ive found out that what worked for me was TURN GZIP OFF.

why is that? any explanation why gzip wont work?

hi thanks for the reply.

if you look herehttp://www.7dana.com/download/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=21

it says
Description: Clean, simple and fast theme - 7dana-clean template for Xoops2.0.3 > 2.0.7

and i was able to install it as template.

i currently still have my html in place at
http://www.financemanila.net/index.html

even though ive installed my new 2.22 XOOPS already, since my index.php is still bare.
however,
http://www.financemanila.net/index.php
is still not showing the template that i uploaded.

the 7 dana template is showing
http://www.7dana.com/download/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=21

so why isnt my site showing that too? any help please is appreciated.

update on my own problem.
reading on, i saw that recovery.php may be used. and php debug may be turned on after that.
doing that. my adminning page is back.

which leads to my next question..... does php debug always need to be turned on?

or should i just dump 7 dana clean template altogether>?

ive had that same problem just now.
im a newbie, just trying XOOPS just now.
using 7 dana clean theme, then suddenly
white screen galore!
can't even access www.financemanila.net/admin.php

how do i change anything?
what do i do now?