I just manually installed the modern theme because the Magento connect feature wouldn’t do it.
I followed these instructions: http://www.joomlavue.com/blog/13-manual-installation-magento-modern-theme
Do a SVN checkout of Magento Stable Branch SVN from http://svn.magentocommerce.com/source/branches/1.1/ to your local folder.
Copy app/design/frontend/default/modern to your Magento app/design/frontend/default folder.
Copy skin/frontend/default/modern to your Magento skin/frontend/default folder.
Enable the modern theme through Magento admin: System -> Configuration -> Design and under the Theme section, put “modern” for Templates, Skin, Layout and Default.
Refresh your Magento front store and you have a new skin!
I get the following error on my homepage:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Warning: file_put_contents(/home/oneof/public_html/var/report/-496475264) [<a href=’function.file-put-contents’>function.file-put-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/oneof/public_html/app/Mage.php on line 596’ in /home/oneof/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php:246 Stack trace: #0 /home/oneof/public_html/app/Mage.php(596): mageCoreErrorHandler(2, ‘file_put_conten...’, ‘/home/oneof/pub...’, 596, Array) #1 /home/oneof/public_html/app/Mage.php(463): Mage::printException(’/home/oneof/pub...’, ‘a:2:{i:0;s:345:...’) #2 /home/oneof/public_html/index.php(52): Mage::run(Object(Exception)) #3 {main} thrown in /home/oneof/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php on line 246
I have installed the sample data, but have deleted all the products and categories. Does this matter?
I’m running Magento ver. 1.1.8. Any using version 1.1 of the Modern theme.
I have the following Configuration Scopes:
Default Config
Main Website
Main Store - English
The Default Config Scope has the following values in the Design tab:
Current package name: default
Templates: modern
Skin (Images / CSS) : modern
Layout : modern
Default : modern
The rest of the scopes have the same values and all of them have “Use default” checkbox checked.
In CMS - Manage Pages I only have one page. My Home Page.
In General Information it has the following code:
<!-- this homepage can be used for modern theme --> {{block type="core/template" template="sample/home.phtml"}}
In Custom Design it has:
Custom Theme: --Please Select --
Layout: 1 column
And nothing else.
I’ve tried setting the custom theme drop down to: Modern - template and Modern - layout, but I just get a blank page.
