now I recovered every things excepts all the posts in the forum (newBB).
for some reason all fora are available and there stats visble but with empty contents. My memebers will screem at me for having their posts lost!!

one big advise: Do not rename any file/directory in the theme directory. This will for sure corrupt your dB.

One wise thing to do, is to backup all the site before proceeding to any change. Will invest in a new hard drive for backup

I think that some thing has changed in the db that makes the site render a blank screen.
the changes I have made were within the physical location of the themes. I did not change any thing in the admin menu that my change the dB.

I copied the dB and installed it on a local server runing XOOPS that was working before and got the same problem of blank screen. which clearly means that something hapned in the dB.

I did one more test. I added some code to mainfile.php to make the xoop system pick randomly a theme among many other themes in the library of themes. again this did not work.

my db has not been backed up for one month and there is plenty of content that has bee added to the site since then.

I would like to get inputs on how to set the theme within the db

Hi guys.

I am runing into troubles with my web site www.tinejdad.com.
my web site is runing under phpkaox theme for a while as default theme.
recently I decided to customize this theme with colours of my own. Then I want to my site root directory and 777 chmoded the theme directory so as to get access into it. then I renamed the existing phpkaox theme to phpkaox_save. It took me again to 777 chmod it to be able to rename it. Then I ftp uploaded my customized phpkaox that I mistakinly did not rename. This one has been tested on a local server and works perfect. When it has been uploaded, I run my web site www.tinejdad.com and just got a blank screen. I suspected that some thing still goes wromg with the change I made for customization. I then just deleted the customized phpkaox and renamed the original saved one: phpkaox_save to phpkaox. I still get the blank screen

With a blank screen I can't even get to administration menu

Is there any way I can edit some php file so as to tell XOOPS to point to default theme instead of phpkaox? perhaps this will recover content to the web site and allow me to get into administration menu

any tip to get around this issue is welcome

many thinks