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In your custom directory, you don't need to copy all the core templates--you only need to put there those templates you customize.

Anyhow, what you write looks good. This could be a permissions problem. Does Apache have read access to /var/www/cvcrm_custom ? May need execute access as well--I don't recall.

In Addition, when I rename the main template to try to force it to look into the custom directory, it shoots me this error when I attempt to access the event:


    * user warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "CRM/Event/Page/EventInfo.tpl" in /var/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1093.
    * user warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "CRM/Event/Page/EventInfo.tpl" in /var/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1093.

Looking into the php file, all I see on line 1093 is the function to shoot the error.  A reference is made to the 'templates_c' directory (but I cannot find this directory), and the directoryClean=3 should have cleaned all three of the directories right?

Thank you for the reply.  My custom template folder is in my drupal root (which I installed right into the /var/www/ as opposed to the default /var/www/drupalxxxx directory.  Perhaps this is my problem, maybe the drupal root shouldn't be in the site root itself.  I did this to load the drupal home automatically when I visit the domain (in this case: http://localhost/).  I did check the files directory and when I installed drupal, I granted write access to the folder (and contents), and never changed it back.  There has to be something I am missing, but perhaps I will use the core templates to edit - to get the functionality and documentation that I need.  Afterwards, I am going to re-install everything and try the custom template directory again.  If the problem persists when I go live, I will store backups of the .tpl files I edit so that way when I upgrade civicrm, I can just overwrite the files (last case scenario work-around of course).

Thank you for the suggestions non-the-less.  But considering that no one else seems to be experiencing this issue, I can pretty safely assume that it has something to do with my installation (so a fresh installation should resolve it).

Thanks again,

tomfloyd - I'm experiencing the same issue.  Can you post how you resolved your directory path issue?
Thank you.


Edited PCPinfo.tpl and saved to
civicrm_custom/CRM/Contribute/Page

Edited directories to reflect custom folder:
mysite/public_html/cms/civicrm_custom (chmod at 755)

Enabled debug
and cleaned template directory using &directoryCleanup=1at the end of the url of PCP page

Also ran Smarty debug and custom template directory is correctly defined.

(template changes work when installed over civicrm core templates, but prefer not to do this.)

Thank you for responding.  Checked in admin and it is listed as  /home/mysite/public_html/cms/civicrm_custom.  Sorry, I failed to add /home when typing the reply.  Can you suggest any additional troubleshooting techniques that might help me identify the problem?  Thank you.