did you copy over the files or create the live one from fresh install?
The “live” one was a complete new install.
I’m not too worried, just puzzled mostly. I found this topic on moving WP https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory so figured I’d use that to move the “test” install to a different directory (don’t want the functioning directory to be “wptest2” lol) and run it off the root when I’m ready … most likely tomorrow.
If I hadn’t just spent 3 weeks upgrading a half dozen sites and their software for a MySQL upgrade then another week to upgrade the OS I’d puzzle it out. But I’m a little tired of staring at the ‘puter screen for a few hours after I get home from the office and 8-10 hours of staring two computer monitors.
@p2ab BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory per your link above https://codex.buddypress.org/user/before-installing/#system-and-server-requirements
It’s working.
I used that to guide me in changing the directory name of the test install… it pointed out the issues that can crop up.
I moved everything to a new directory, well, made a backup and renamed the old directory really.
I ran searchreplace to update the url/ path and all is good 🙂 Now it runs just fine when you go to the root of the site. Plus by making a backup of the DB and getting the old test to use it I still have a test install to play around with.
The only hiccup was that I had my posts going to \blog and that was going to be the real directory for the live install… that confused me for a few minutes when everything else worked. Renamed the the physical \blog and all was well.
I still haven’t figured out why one worked and the other didn’t, but its a moot point now.
