Not able to install themes

[har-kon]

Hello!

 

I have installed prestashop 1.4.6.2 totally fresh without anything else installed but after that i tried to install a theme bought in the shop with the themeinstaller i get into trouble...

 

Import from your computer: Error during zip extraction

Import from the web: Only zip files are allowed

 

The filename is correct - it is by sure a zip-file an i have already contacted the theme developer who was so nice to install a fresh prestashop on his server with which i could install without any problems the downloaded theme-file.

 

So the error must (i guess) have something to do with either the presta-installation or my server-config

 

Any hints?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Harald Konrad

[hxd]

When automatic installers don't work, you can always turn to the good old manual installation.

 

To install a theme manually, unzip the archive on your local computer. If the theme also requires additional modules, inside the unzipped archive there should be two folders, probably called themes and modules. Inside the themes folder you'll find a subfolder with the theme's files. Using an FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) upload this folder (e.g. name_of_theme) to your PrestaShop's themes folder. Assuming your PrestaShop is installed in the root public_html directory on your hosting account, you should upload the folder to public_html/themes.

 

In case the archive also has modules in it you should upload those as well. Upload the folders for the modules to public_html/modules.

 

Then log in to the backend of your PrestaShop, go to Modules tab>Themes sub-tab and switch to the new theme. If you uploaded modules as well, go to the Modules tab again, find the modules and install them.

 

Depending on the theme, you may also need to disable some of the other modules. Inside the unzipped archive, there should probably be a text file with some installation instructions. Check that as well.

[har-kon]

Thanks for your answer.

 

I think this can be a way if i don´t get otherwise a hint why this strange error messages occur...

 

Installing, activating and deactivating modules is no problem at all

 

But in the config.xml of the theme there is a hook section with lines like:

 

<hook module="blocktopmenu" hook="top" position="9"/>

<hook module="blockcontactinfos" hook="header" position="23"/>

<hook module="blockcontactinfos" hook="footer" position="1"/>

 

How do i set the hooks manually?

 

And another image-section with lines like this:

<image name="small" width="45" height="45" products="true" categories="true" manufacturers="true" suppliers="true" scenes="false"/>

 

How do i handle this?