SMF mods installed but settings not appearing

[Jess]

okay this is really making me angry. anyways I installed SMF 2.0 RC4 this morning and went on to install some mods.

some of the mods are:
*Global Headers Footers
*Mimetex
*Gallery



thing is, I successfully installed seven mods but NONE of them are appearing. I mean, I tried looking for the place to edit the global headers & footers, but I could not find it at all. The Mimetex (LaTeX bbcode) is not appearing. no Gallery settings. all the mods' options/settings have not appeared at all in the admin panel. I have no idea why


people @ the SMF community couldn't help much either. one said it was the permissions, but I edited that and nothing happened.

[darkwoon]

I've made a test installation of SMF and those three plugins. All three installed without error message from the Package manager, but MimeTex did not work - the BBCode was not recognized.

For MimeTex, I used the manual installation procedure found on the package page (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1111). What I got then was that my TeX BBCode was properly parsed, but replaced by a message telling me to install mimetex locally. Which I did by:

- Grabbing MimeTeX (http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.zip) and unzip it into a temporary directory (/tmp/mimetex);
- In /tmp/mimetex, compile the CGI binary using:
gcc mimetex.c gifsave.c -o mimetex.cgi -lm -DAA
- Copying the resulting file into my HTTP server cgi-bin directory;
- Editing the smf/Sources/Subs.php file again, this time replacing the test URL by my own one:

http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi ---> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi

...and finally I got the math formula displayed as I wanted. My guess is that something changed in SMF since last time the package was created, preventing its automated installation.

I don't really know what the problem could be with the other two packages. For the Gallery, I had to manually create the gallery subdirectory, as well as Packages/temp (with mode 777). I don't think I did anything special to get the Global Headers/Footers working.

I hope that it at least will help you getting 33% closer to the full solution to your problem :).

Edit: Since Yesterday, I've also made some quick tests with SMF 2.0-RC4... There are many things that changed internally so a lot of the packages designed for the 1.1.x fail in weird ways. I had to install MimeTeX and Gallery manually (even though the later is marked as 2.0-compatible) - only Global H&F worked out of the box. As with 1.1.12, I had to manually change permissions and create a couple missing directories.

From what I've seen and been told so far, unless you have specific needs or want to beta-test, do not deploy 2.0 on a production website - it is still not stable enough and far from being bug-free.

[Jess]

I created another forum using 2.0 RC4, first thing I installed was Global Headers Footers.

no setting showed up so I didn't bother to install any more mods on that forum