I’ve migrated an EE install from the web to my local machine because for template development it was a pain to upload/refresh every time I wanted to see a change. All seemed well until the control panel had no css styling what-so-ever. I found this KB on unstyled control panels and moving the control panel theme to the system directory solved that problem. The thing which confused me though was when I checked the php.ini file (PHP5) in MAMP that open_basedir was not set (commented out). Is there something else preventing these directory access issues?
Thanks.