This is for those who have installed a Vanilla forum and after a while get the “Something went wrong” error. The error is caused by Vanilla’s caching – Smarty cannot access the cache folders, so it throws an error. It doesn’t show up at first, only when Vanilla would start caching.

 

The permissions of the cache/Smarty/compile folder need to be set to 777. And everything else in the cache/ folder too. (just to be safe 😉 )

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