I've made a site using a modified theme. I've uploaded the page to a web-hotel, and everything were working brilliantly. Now, I suppose this is where I did go wrong, and I usually do by the time that everything is well.. I tried to fix what was already working! Classic mistake!

Well. Anywho.. What I did was to change the File System Temporary-directory to a folder on my webhotel, sites/all/tmp. Then, all of a sudden my theme dissappeared??? I tried to clear cache and even ran update.php two times.
What can I do?? Now my site is just a plain text-file...

Does anybody know more about this kind of problem?

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Vandalf commented

Oh, yes, and I tried to change my theme to Garland, and then both cleared cache and ran the update.php again, but still. It does not even "find" Garland, despite the fact that it is listed in the Themes-list, and that I can activate it (to no effect, though) at any time.
Also, the reason why I changed the Temporary folder in the first place was that there was an error message at the top of the File System page, telling me that it was not accessible by web. Thus I changed it (to my horror)..

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psymes commented

Have any progress been made as to finding a solution to this?

I am experiencing the very same problem

Once I move content from a development & test site to the live site (both on the same web-server) I am prompted by Drupal to change my file system directory so that temp directory is accessible and writable.

However, once I do change that path in the admin all themes vanish and the site turns into a text-and-images-only site with no formatting or style. It 'disconnects' from all the themes and css.

Even changing the setting back to what it was doesn't help. Only a database restore will do it.

All the best

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psymes commented

I finally managed to find a solution that worked for me - though not necessarily an explanation;

I had to clean out the target server completely and have all directories deleted before uploading an unpacking a tar ball with all the files from my working development site. Having gotten rid of everything old got rid of the said problem though it took considerable time to erase and re-upload everything. (I only left the directories with images and other file uploads that was unrelated to Drupal and its modules)

Also make sure that all url references in settings.php and .htaccess are consistent.

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kars-t commented
Assigned: Vandalf » Unassigned
Status: Active » Fixed

Hi

I am closing this issue to clean up the issue queue. Feel free to reopen the issue if there is new information and the problem still resides. If not please make sure you close your issues that you don't need any more.

Maybe you can get support from the local user group. Please take a look at this list at groups.drupal.org.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.