Affilotheme setup

02 Jun 12 4:48 pm

I've done all that, but still i get no thumbnails. I sent an email to support. Maybe they'll be able to help.

02 Jun 12 7:37 pm

rtkellie wrote:I realize now that the wordpress setup has to be in the root directory of a domain, not in a sub folder. You can can install into the root of a sub domain or an add-on domain, but not a sub folder or directory within a domain. Once I did that, everything works fine! :)

I knew something weird was going on there. Glad you solved the problem!

07 Jun 12 8:58 pm

Well I managed to figure this one out on my own. There were 2 separate issues that were preventing timthumb.php from executing properly.

First, I had to install php-gd...

On CentOS/RHEL:

yum install php-gd (If it says the package is not available see the bottom of this post for a solution.)

The second problem was that when I uploaded Affilotheme to my server I was logged in to FTP as root, which caused all of the files to be owned by root and prevented the scripts from running. Here's how I fixed it:

Switch to your public_html directory or whatever your document root/wordpress root directory is then run the following commands:

cd /wp-content/themes

chown -hR cpaneluser:cpaneluser affilotheme_2/ (replace cpaneluser with your actual cPanel user name)

If you've been having other php/script related issues you can instead run the above command on your whole wordpress directory.

Now just restart apache/httpd and you should be good to go! ('service httpd restart' or 'service apache restart' depending on your setup, minus the 's)

php-gd package not available solution:

First, back up your yum config:

cd /etc
cp yum.conf yum.conf.bak

Now check the file with your favorite text editor (I like nano myself):

vi /etc/yum.conf

or

nano /etc/yum.conf

or

pico /etc/yum.conf

and look for a line starting with exclude=if php-gd or php* . Remove all instances of this and save the file. Now you should be able to install php-gd via: yum install php-gd (or sudo yum install php-gd if you're not logged in as root)

After you get php-gd installed correctly be sure to restore the backup of yum.conf since the php block in there protects your cPanel from getting messed up:

rm yum.conf -f
mv yum.conf.bak yum.conf

Return to the first step and follow through.

16 Jun 12 1:50 pm

Russ, please see my post right above yours. I had the same problem and this fixed it 100%.

russ1 wrote:This is a pretty basic question but after following the instructions to a tee regarding placing a Header on my site it just comes up with tiny tiles/triangles. I clicked save and all that but I just can not after a zillion attempts and constant views of the instructional video's to get it to work.

Any advice would be extremely appreciated, I've been several nights on this.....:(

Russ