My custom page.tpl.php file is not picked up

Question

I have a site running in a subdir of my main site, like www.mysite.com/drupal.

I want to use a separate page.tpl.php file for my about page www.mysite.com/drupal/about.

I have tried naming the file page--about.tpl.php and page--drupal--about.tpl.php but neither is working. It just loads the regular page.tpl.php file.

This seems really straightforward and one of those should be correct. Is this buggy because Drupal is in a subdir or am I doing something wrong?

(And yes, I've cleared the cache.)

Answer 1

have you seen through your theme suggestions for the about page?

If not, then please refer to it and create a tpl file according to the suggestions and you will see that particular template running for "about" page.

As of Drupal 7.33, Drupal core has a theme debug mode that can be enabled and disabled via the theme_debug variable. Theme debug mode can be used to see possible template suggestions and the locations of template files right in your HTML markup (as HTML comments).

To enable it, add this line to your settings.php:

$conf['theme_debug'] = TRUE;

OR, You can enable it with drush using:

drush vset theme_debug 1

And disable using

drush vset theme_debug 0

Note: You'll then see output like this when you inspect or view source:

<!-- THEME DEBUG -->
<!-- CALL: theme('page') -->
<!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS:
   * page--front.tpl.php
   * page--node.tpl.php
   x page.tpl.php
-->
<!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/system/page.tpl.php' -->
…
<!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/system/page.tpl.php' -->