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.

What you downloaded from 7-dana was a theme, not a template. I don't know how optimized the 7-dana themes are for 2.2 - don't know enough about 2.2 to say. But, there is a big difference between themes and templates in xoops. You can explore more about this here: https://xoops.org/modules/smartfaq/category.php?categoryid=17

Assuming that the 7-dana themes work in 2.2, you should make sure you have that theme selected on the admin page: Administration/Preferences/System/General Settings

Choose your theme options. Additionally, while you are experimenting, turn on Quote:. This will serve to update some aspects of your themes/templates. Make sure to reset it after you're done experimenting.

Again, not sure if 2.2 and old themes 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.

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?