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The permissions of the bb-templates folder should be 0755. Same for the folder the theme is in as well. Files in the theme folder should be 0644. Is all that true?

604 is a weird permission. That’s:

owner: read/write

group: nothing

everyong: read

My guess is that you’re the owner and only the 6 here matters. You could probably use 0600 and it would work (assuming you ARE the owner.) I can’t even see how the 0 would matter, since everyone can read, but not if you’re in the group. Makes no sense.

Anyway, so long as the directory is 0755, you’ll be able to get into the directory.

644 is good for php files. 755 is needed for folders. You need to change all the folders to 755 permissions, not 644.

What is this “custom folder” you’re talking about? Is it a folder inside my-templates? Both folders will need to be 755 permissions, and the theme will need to be valid (with a proper header in style.css).

Take a screenshot if you can of the folder structure with permissions.

Nothing else I can think of. Are you sure it’s not a folder inside a folder inside my-templates? It should be:

my-templates (755 permissions)

–template-folder (755 permissions)

—-style.css (644 permissions with a proper header)

There’s not much more to it.

Just thought of something — my style.css file refers via @import to a suite of stylesheets that are contained within a “styles” directory located in my theme folder with (755 permissions). Could that be the problem?

Post your style.css header here please. Actually, post it at pastebin.com and link it here. It will get garbled here.

Also, do you have a screenshot.png or screenshot.jpg in the theme folder?

Can you post a shot of the themes selection in your bb-admin?

Screenshot is fine, just leave it. I was only wondering if there would be one in the screenshot.

Yes, post a screenshot of the appearance panel. Sorry for the confusing terminology. I forget what it’s called in different versions.

Post a screenshot of the appearance panel please. Just wondering what it’s looking like.

Do you have two instances of bbPress installed, where you might be accessing the wrong one and thus not seeing your theme?

Here’s how the appearance/themes-selection screen looks — it’s as if I had no custom template uploaded at all.

http://www.promomachine.com/appearance-panel.png

There is only one bbPress installation on the server.

here’s three shots — one for each directory level, with the “get info” dialog alongside:

Root Directory (showing bbPress folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/root-bbpress_info.png

bbPress Directory (showing my-templates folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/bbpress-my-templates_info.png

my-templates Directory (showing promoforums folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/my-templates-promoforums_info.png

promoforums Directory (showing style.css file permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/promoforums-stylecss_info.png

So, if the theme is where you say it is, why doesn’t this come up?

http://blog.promomachine.com/bbpress/my-templates/promomachines/style.css

Also, this should work:

http://blog.promomachine.com/bbpress/my-templates/promomachines/screenshot.png

Both are not found. It doesn’t look like a permission issue. That would return a different error.