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[cak Friend cakJoin date: April 2006Posts: 35Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 8]

#132749

Hi

I’m having trouble uploading JA Mesolite to Joomla. I’ve tried thru the template installer, tried on my host panel. I’ve uploaded templates hundreds of times. I’ve extracted the template, extracted on my host panel. The only file that extract is en-gb and component.php. I’m really stuck on this.

Heres the message I get instead of a full extraction:

replace admin/en-GB.tpl_ja_mesolite.ini? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: NULL
(assuming [N]one)

thanks for any help

Cindy

[w3bars Friend w3barsJoin date: July 2008Posts: 34Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#267985

It seems that you have some files left or something like that. Go to your control panel, then find some file manager, go to templates folder (on you’r Joomla! site) and delete the JA Mesolite folder.

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267987

w3 is right, go to your file amanger and delete the template for the server, every trace of it and try it again. its detecting the provious failed install.

then, as I don’t recall a template having a component.php, make sure your install the template.zip and not the quickstart.

let us know what happens

[cak Friend cakJoin date: April 2006Posts: 35Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 8]

#268006

The only file I can find to upload with mesolite is

ja_mesolite_template_j15 > This is the file I’m having trouble with

I’m having trouble finding the ja_meslite_template.zip

[cgc0202 Friend cgc0202Join date: August 2007Posts: 2244Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 206 Thanked: 262 times in 1 posts]

#268007

<em>@cak 76699 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi

I’m having trouble uploading JA Mesolite to Joomla. I’ve tried thru the template installer, tried on my host panel. I’ve uploaded templates hundreds of times. I’ve extracted the template, extracted on my host panel. The only file that extract is en-gb and component.php. I’m really stuck on this.

Heres the message I get instead of a full extraction:

replace admin/en-GB.tpl_ja_mesolite.ini? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: NULL
(assuming [N]one)

thanks for any help

Cindy</blockquote>

Hi Cindy,

When something goes awry — unless it is very obvious — it is usually very difficult to troubleshoot and find the error.

Are you doing a fresh install or are you updating an existing site?

Why Fresh Install using the QuickStart Kit.

If you are doing a fresh install, or if you do not have much content in your site yet, I would suggest installing the Joomla 1.5.x(latest)-Mesolite QuickStart Kit component only of the complete Joomla 1.5.x(latest)-Mesolite. The actual installation stage — after you have downloaded, unpacked and uploaded the QuickStart Kit and created your database, username & password, and FTP username & password — takes only about 5 minutes (10 minutes at most if you are not too familiar yet with Joomla).

If you do a fresh install, I would suggest downloading a fresh Joomla 1.5.x(latest)-Mesolite. Sometimes, there are random “fidelity errors” during any stage of the download, unpack and upload processes.

If you are updating an existing site

If you already have an existing site, that is highly customized and with lots of articles, if you downloaded a Joomla 1.5.x(latest)-Mesolite, it includes a changelog. All you have to do really would be to update your existing site with files that were modified — usually just a few, a dozen at the most.

This simple process will involve

1. Patch update of the Joomla component
2. Patch update of the Mesolite component (with the modified files)

The aforementioned process for the Mesolite update avoids the “uninstall the old – install the new” which is not only very time consuming, there are so many steps that could lead to errors.

Cornelio

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#268008

<em>@cak 76727 wrote:</em><blockquote>The only file I can find to upload with mesolite is

ja_mesolite_template_j15 > This is the file I’m having trouble with

I’m having trouble finding the ja_meslite_template.zip</blockquote>

Sorry I don’t understand this. We came to conclusion that you have previously installed JA Mesolite on your server, but you didn’t delete it. You now have to go to your server file manager and delete the JA Mesolite folder in your “/templates” directory. When you delete that folder upload again the template file.

[cgc0202 Friend cgc0202Join date: August 2007Posts: 2244Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 206 Thanked: 262 times in 1 posts]

#268009

<em>@w3bars 76731 wrote:</em><blockquote>Sorry I don’t understand this. We came to conclusion that you have previously installed JA Mesolite on your server, but you didn’t delete it. You now have to go to your server file manager and delete the JA Mesolite folder in your “/templates” directory. When you delete that folder upload again the template file.</blockquote>

You do not simply delete a folder — because there may be several folders (for each of the template, extsnsions and modules) that go to different places. What you need to do is uninstall the old, before you install the new using the “Install/Uninstall” manager. Route:

administrator (backend of your site) =>point to Extensions => click “Install/Uninstall” => Install (Extension) => Click browse => Click Upload file and Install

<em>@cak 76727 wrote:</em><blockquote>The only file I can find to upload with mesolite is

ja_mesolite_template_j15 > This is the file I’m having trouble with

I’m having trouble finding the ja_meslite_template.zip</blockquote>

I think your post above may be the heart of the problem. If you do a fresh download, the latest version is

JA Mesolite for Joomla 1.5.v1.2.zip

that is a complete kit. It includes so many things that you should not upload. If you unpack the aforementioned downloaded kit, you will get a folder

JA Mesolite for Joomla 1.5.v1.2

with folders and a file:

1. Templates
2. Extensions
3. Quickstart
4. changelog.txt

QuickStart

If you do the QuickStart, you only need the zip file in the Quickstart folder

ja_mesolite_quickstart_j15.zip

I prefer to unzip the aforementioned QuickStart zip file and you will get yet another folder

ja_mesolite_quickstart_j15

which has 26 files and nested folders in it. This ja_mesolite_quickstart_j15 includes the Joomla 1.5.6 and the complete (latest) Mesolite template components.

The aforementioned folder — ja_mesolite_quickstart_j15 — is what I upload via FTP, if I perform the QuickStart Installation. The QuickStart Installation is so easy, assuming you follow the browser-based installations properly, and if you did everything correctly, you should get the Demo page.

Standard Fresh Install

In contrast, if you do it the standard way, not only will you need to install the Joomla 1.5.x (separately), which involves the same steps as the QuickStart Install above, And then to install the Mesolite component, you have to install all the following via the “Install-Uninstall” manager in your site.

1. Template

=> ja_mesolite_template_j15.zip

2. Extensions

=>ja_vm_theme.zip

[Modules

3. ja_vm_theme.zip
4. mod_jaslideshow.zip
5. mod_ja_vmproductslide.zip
6. mod_janews.zip

Note: install as zip files, when the “Install-Uninstall” manager is used.

Uninstall old — Install new

It is even more tedious if you already have an existing site, because you not only have to “unlinstall the old Mesolite template components before you can install the latest (new) Mesolite components — so double the above (12 steps excluding any update of the Joomla 1.5.x). Any step may cause an error, if you have not completely removed any of the old files and folders, associated with the aforementioned Mesolite template components.

For the aforementioned reason, even experienced Joomla1.5.x-Joomlart template users prefer to use the QuickStart Kit installation.

Cornelio

[cak Friend cakJoin date: April 2006Posts: 35Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 8]

#268010

Thank you.. I just went with the quick install. Since I’m refurbishing my site, I’m starting over. Thanks for all your help!

Cindy

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