Troubleshooting

AutoTheme is a fairly well-polished module, but you might encounter a few issues, which are covered in the following sections.

Error: xxxxxxxxx _NOTWRITABLE

You receive a not writable message if you have not set the correct permissions on the theme and configuration files for AutoTheme. You need to grant complete access (chmod 777) to all of the following locations:

 modules/AutoTheme/autotheme.cfg modules/AutoTheme/_compile/ themes/myTheme/theme.cfg themes/ 

myTheme in the preceding example is the name of the theme on which you are working. If you are using multiple AutoTheme themes, the configuration file for each theme should be set as writable.

Border Appears Around All Images

PostNuke prior to version .75 did not display the borders of images using the XHTML border="0" attribute setting. That code is deprecated, and to comply with modern standards, it was removed for the PostNuke .75 release.

The borders are appearing with your AutoTheme likely because it was developed prior to PostNuke .75 and does not account for this change. The fix for this problem is to include a style in your theme that turns borders for images off by default:

 img { border:0px; } 

The use of CSS to control border display is compliant with current XHTML standards.

Administration Interface Is Distorted

If you have installed AutoTheme and are trying to enter the AutoTheme Administration pages, but you find the module information is misaligned, distorted, and otherwise hard to read, it is likely because you are using a Xanthia theme. Xanthia themes do not seem to work well with the AutoTheme administrative interface.

To view the pages correctly, you need to change to a non-Xanthia theme, such as the default ExtraLite PostNuke theme or any AutoTheme theme.