Any hint to what is wrong here?
Interesting, but how could that be?
Obviously it is reading from the right db, so how could it write to the wrong db?
Inspection of mdl_config shows the new them being written to the db.
Are there any error messages in the php.log file?
Is the site available on the web?
If you turn on 'allowthemechangeonurl' setting, then does the theme change via the URL?
Is theme designer mode on? If not then when you purge all caches and look at the URL for the 'all' CSS file in the network tab of the browser development tools (F12) does the theme revision number increase?
Hi Gareth,
Site is available on the web (I guess you mean accessible through browser)
Change theme via UTL is turned on, no effect
Theme designer is on, but I'm afraid I do not quite understand what you mean by the URL for the 'all' CSS file in the network tab of the browser development tools (F12). See a lot of tabs with F12, both in Chrome and in Firefix, but not sure which you mean...
In php.log:
[Tue Feb 27 09:38:33.530641 2018] [lsapi:notice] [pid 27599:tid 139723490072320] [client 80.57.196.118:61135] [host upgradelearning.cobytes.io] Backend log: Default exception handler: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Unexpected output whilst processing AJAX request. This could be caused by trailing whitespace. Output received: '\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n' Debug: \nError code: codingerror\n* line 77 of /lib/ajax/ajaxlib.php: coding_exception thrown\n* line 52 of /lib/ajax/getsiteadminbranch.php: call to ajax_check_captured_output()\n, referer: http://upgradelearning.cobytes.io/nimo/my/
[Tue Feb 27 09:39:13.976574 2018] [lsapi:notice] [pid 27599:tid 139723330610944] [client 80.57.196.118:61154] [host upgradelearning.cobytes.io] Backend log: Default exception handler: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Unexpected output whilst processing AJAX request. This could be caused by trailing whitespace. Output received: '\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n' Debug: \nError code: codingerror\n* line 77 of /lib/ajax/ajaxlib.php: coding_exception thrown\n* line 52 of /lib/ajax/getsiteadminbranch.php: call to ajax_check_captured_output()\n, referer: http://upgradelearning.cobytes.io/nimo/course/view.php?id=72
Ok....
So if it's on the web, would you be willing to share the URL for us to look?
Turn of TDM.
Network tab and learn about browser development tools -> https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/#network - filter on 'CSS' with the tab 'CSS' and look for a name of 'all'.
Error log may indicate that you've FTP'd things wrongly in ASCII transfer mode only.
I've send you account details to look as an admin.
Is this the tab you mean in F12 ??
FTP: is default in binary mode.
I uploaded the moodle zip file, and extracted it on the server with php-zip
Yes and the 'all' file you see in the list.
Also 'http://upgradelearning.cobytes.io/nimo' is 'ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED'.
And FontAwesome 4.2.0? What theme is that?
seems to be a trailing ' after the site name... http://upgradelearning.cobytes.io/nimo should work!
I still cannot see the site. Was the subdomain DNS added recently?
I can see it and it is faster than I found it last night.
I've done a few 'whois' lookups and it has no records, therefore... possibly why its not showing for me DNS wise. Otherwise will need to know the IP and alter the hosts file to point to it.
Looking for Nimo - one would suspect that because you cannot change theme and the theme settings are not being honoured, could be caused by the fact that they have be set in your Moodle root config.php.
just a thought?
If they are then you would see them hilighted in yellow or some other bright colour in...
Site Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings page.
(NIMO not my choice for the site name )
When I put $CFG->theme = "essential" in the config.php, the theme selection page shows just the essential theme, with "Defined in config.php" as a message.
However, the theme does not show....
I got this error just now:
This page should be using theme adaptable which cannot be initialised. Falling back to the site theme boost
So perhaps you have the wrong theme listed in Theme selector?
Looks like a problem with Adaptable, try checking to see if there is an update for it?
I do not use the theme Adaptable. Installed the Essential theme by unzipping theme_essential_moodle34_2017102900.zip
After some carefull work of Gareth:
The cause of the problem seems to be that somehow the field mdl_course.theme was filled with a value, for course id=1 (site).
Removing this solved the problem.