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I pretty much always save templates as files

I’ve been a little frustrated with an issue

When I make an edit to a template file and save it, then visit the page in my browser, EE serves up the database version of the template, not the file (which is newer)

I am using cacheing for a couple templates, but not the one In question

am I misunderstanding something or this the expected behavior?

Flying Fish,

In cases like this its usually a permissions issue. That is where I would start.

Flying Fish,

What version and build of EE are you using?
Are you using any add-ons?

Are you using any other caching of sorts?

Make sure your template folder has the correct permissions

I’m on v2.2.1 - Build: date 20110705

The only caching I’m using is through template manager, on css and js files mostly.

I’m using suphp so directory permissions are 755 and files are 644

I know that the web server has no problem writing and creating templates files, and I’m not getting any errors in cp regarding permissions

How are you setting your path to the template files directory? Just in the CP? The one time I had this happen, it was because I was using a super-customized config.php setting to determine the path.

I don’t know if this qualifies as super-customized, but it is modified so that I can run the site either locally with MAMP or on my host

// Multi-Server Setup
// Dynamic paths for cross-server compatibility

// base_url and index_page were commented out below

$protocol                       = (isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) && $_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https://" : "http://";
$base_url                       = $protocol . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$base_path                      = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$system_folder                  = "system";
$images_folder                  = "images";
$images_path                    = $base_path . "/" . $images_folder;
$images_url                     = $base_url . "/" . $images_folder;

$config['index_page']           = "";
$config['base_url']             = $base_url . "/";
$config['site_url']             = $config['base_url'];
$config['cp_url']               = $config['base_url'] . $system_folder . "/index.php";
$config['theme_folder_path']    = $base_path . "/themes/";
$config['theme_folder_url']     = $base_url . "/themes/";
$config['tmpl_file_basepath']   = $base_path . "/templates/";

$config['emoticon_path']        = $images_url . "/smileys/";
$config['captcha_path']         = $images_path . "/captchas/";
$config['captcha_url']          = $images_url . "/captchas/";
$config['avatar_path']            = $images_path . "/avatars/";
$config['avatar_url']            = $images_url . "/avatars/";
$config['photo_path']            = $images_path . "/member_photos/";
$config['photo_url']            = $images_url . "/member_photos/";
$config['sig_img_path']         = $images_path . "/signature_attachments/";
$config['sig_img_url']          = $images_url . "/signature_attachments/";
$config['prv_msg_upload_path']  = $images_path . "/pm_attachments/";

Yep, that’s the sort of thing I was looking for. Ok, for the time being, comment out the line that begins with $config[‘tmpl_file_basepath’] and set that manually in your CP. This is just for troubleshooting for now.

When you set the template file path in your CP, does that change the behavior?

ah, indeed it does change the behavior

it works as it should, using the more recent save template

is there any way around this so that I can still use my custom config?

Nothing off the top of my head, but you can try playing around with different settings to see what works. We’re not in a position to support custom work config.php setups, but I can move this over to Community Help if you like and see if anyone hanging out there has any suggestions for you. Would that work?

by all means, feel free to put me over there, thanks