Yes, this lesson was learned the hard way. The main problem I think was that I had installed Pligg several times before and I guess the confidence was proactively preventing me from arriving at a solution. Yes the problem might be very trivial but looks like there were a lot of people having this problem and I did not find any solution online.
The error:
Fatal error: TPL: [in line 0]: syntax error: file 'blank.tpl' does not exist in ...
The problem:
To me at least, the problem was possibly caused by the fact that I was moving to a new host. My old host was giving me all sorts of problems (after almost 4 years! I tried to be patient). For some strange reason blank files that are part of Pligg were not being uploaded to the server. The "blank.tpl" file is blank and so it was always missing. The problem is that this error message is misleading. There is another blank.tpl file in the template folder which I thought was the one it was complaining about. The missing file however was the blank.tpl file in the main templates folder.
There were some other folders that were not being created because they were blank and I was always having to create them manually.
The Solution:
Easy! I uploaded the zip file to my server and unzipped it from there. From there everything went on smoothly, several hours later. Hope my frustration and this posting will help someone (maybe even myself in the future!)
2 weeks ago
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