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Weird BuddyPress Theme issue

Hi All,

I’m new here, and quite new to WordPress MU and BuddyPress.

I’ve got a contract at the moment to redesign a website using wordpress/buddypress and I have ran into a problem I cannot figure out.

The server, a single box, hosts two domains. One is the live site, and one is the development site.

The web roots are in entirely different directories, and the databases are actually on different machines (the dev site being local). I did a mysql dump of the live site db, and imported it into the dev database, then changed all the values pointing to the live to domain, to the development domain.

I also changed the relevant settings in the wp-config file.

Everything worked fine, and I can change the WordPress MU theme to my new design without a problem.

The trouble starts when i try and change the BuddyPress members theme. If I change the settings in the admin panel on the development site, it somehow manages to change the settings on the live site, and since the new theme isn’t installed there, it breaks.

I have looked everywhere, but cannot find anything to suggest why this is happening. Has anybody got any ideas?

Regards,

Nathan

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:36:23
  • nathanlee
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    Thanks Andrew, I think it’s probably got something to do with this though, but I can’t find where the settings for it are stored. It’s an error message at the top of the admin screen.

    "Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public

    To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to /var/www/vhosts/…"

    The "to" path is pointing to a directory on the live server, which doesn’t exist on the laptop I’m developing on, so there’s a setting somewhere that I’ve missed, but I can’t find it.

    Any ideas?