How to solve Joomla Error " The template for this display is not available."

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Hi all thanks for taking time to read my question, I was using iPages as my host since past few year now I got a new hosting provider so I am Migrating my Joomla! 3.1.5 from iPage to my new hosting provider. Here is the steps I have followed ^1. - FTP backup iPage - FTP upload on Newhosting - Database Export (From Old server) - Database import (To new Server) - Configuration.php modification Here is the config Details, These are only detail I changed with new data ``` var $host = 'localhost'; var $user = 'the_db_username'; var $password = 'the_db_password'; ``` After all this I am not able to see previous look of website. I am getting login option on home page when i am logging in it says: "The template for this display is not available.Please contact a Site administrator." I can access to the admin panel using admin credentials but same error message I am getting there. Any suggestion..!! Thanks

Accepted Answer

This error is raised when the chosen template (in administrator->extensions->templates) for either the admin or the site is not available.

Since you made a full ftp backup it can be one of two things:

the template was not included in the backup; possibly because of wrong privileges (sometimes the ftp account and the web account run under different users)

the template is not readable by the user running the current apache: it could have wrong permissions or wrong ownership or both on the new server.

Depending on the case above, you might want to re-check your entire installation, and run an update package just to be on the safe side.

The third, albeit unlikely, option is that in the database the #__templates table was - for some funny reason - not copied over or somewhat corrupted.

The error message is a bit misleading (what is a display?).

Update with solution:

The message is generated in the `libraries/cms/application/site.php` file by the following lines:

```
if (!file_exists(JPATH_THEMES . '/' . $template->template . '/index.php'))
{
    $this->enqueueMessage(JText::_('JERROR_ALERTNOTEMPLATE'), 'error');
```

and `JPATH_THEMES` is defined in the `/includes/defines.php` as

```
define('JPATH_THEMES',        JPATH_BASE . '/templates');
```

So the error is most definitely the missing template.

I was able to reproduce this on another Joomla 3.2 site simply by selecting Extensions->Templates->**and making **Bluestork the default template. Switch it to Isis and the issue will disappear; I guess you could do the same for the frontend choosing another template.

How to solve Joomla Error " The template for this display is not available."

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