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Writing this really quick without time to do a lot of investigation, but the files that get written to the file system when I go into the template preferences and rename a template are strangely named.  I would be surprised if you can’t reproduce it.  I had a template in the news template group named archive with a corresponding file in the filesystem named archive.html.  I renamed the template to yearly and when I checked back in I had a file named yearly and one named yearly.html both with the same filesize.  Then to test a little further I changed the name of yearly to gailbraith (just wanted something to stick out as obviously different) and now that folder contains gailbraith and yearly.html with equal filesizes.  Obviously what I should have at this point is one file named gailbraith.html.  Now I’ll go do a sync and see what happens ... after a sync things still stand as they were.

I want to have a template named yearly with a filesystem file named yearly.html.  I’m not entirely sure how to get there from here.  Any help?

Actually on closer examination, that sync brought in yearly.html and gailbraith as templates so I’ll just need to delete gailbraith now.  Still the file system activity seems buggy to me, and it also breaks the stats because the stats count went along to gailbraith and yearly now shows 0 hits.

It turns out this still ends up being an issue for me since I’m working with version control.  I did the initial work on my local machine.  When I moved up to the development server I went into the template manager and changed the template name to yearly and then in the filesystem deleted the file named yearly that had been created.  I did a git pull which brought in yearly.html and then I did a template sync.  Unfortunately instead of recognizing yearly.html as the file that should be associated with the yearly template it ignored yearly.html and recreated the yearly file.  Now on the development server I not only have the template file without an extension, but it is also out of version control.  I did a search of the entire database and couldn’t find where the filesystem filename is being stored.  Could really use some help at getting this wrangled back into line.

Hello UltraBob,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

Can you tell me what version of ExpressionEngine you are currently running?

Does this template have any PHP in it?

Does this rename behavior act the same on all template, even a newly created one that is empty?

Please let me know.

Cheers,

v2.4.0 - Build: date 20120123

no php

created testtemplate:

➜  news.group git:(ee2_update) ✗ ls
categories.html  pageTitle.html  sideBar.html  testtemplate.html  yearly.html
index.html       region.html     story.html    yearly

renamed testtemplate to test

➜  news.group git:(ee2_update) ✗ lscategories.html  pageTitle.html  sideBar.html  test       yearly
index.html       region.html     story.html    test.html  yearly.html

made a change to test so we can see what file gets updated:

➜  news.group git:(ee2_update) ✗ ls -l
total 44
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    3978 May  8 18:09 categories.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    4172 May 11 18:16 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob     224 Apr 19 14:34 pageTitle.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    3978 May  8 18:09 region.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    1291 May 11 18:16 sideBar.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    5041 May  8 18:09 story.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache    7 May 15 12:04 test
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache    0 May 15 12:01 test.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 3685 May 11 18:17 yearly
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    3761 May 11 18:16 yearly.html

renamed test to test2:

➜  news.group git:(ee2_update) ✗ ls -l
total 44
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    3978 May  8 18:09 categories.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    4172 May 11 18:16 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob     224 Apr 19 14:34 pageTitle.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    3978 May  8 18:09 region.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    1291 May 11 18:16 sideBar.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bob    bob    5041 May  8 18:09 story.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache    7 May 15 12:05 test2
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache    0 May 15 12:01 test.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 3685 May 11 18:17 yearly
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob    bob    3761 May 11 18:16 yearly.html

So it seems to work the same on new templates.  On first rename it creates a version with and a version without an extension, from then on it works on the version without an extension, if the file doesn’t have an extension and it gets renamed it acts as expected as long as you expect it to continue creating files without extensions.

Hello UltraBob,

Did you rename the template via the command line or through FTP?

I notice that when you rename testtemplate to test we end up with test and test.html, so wondering where that came from.

We may need to get in a take a look.

Thanks,

I renamed via the control panel.

Hello UltraBob,

That is so odd,

One more question. Does this happen when you operating on a directory that is not in Git?

Thank you,
Shane

Hi Shane,

I don’t really have time to investigate that at the moment, but there should be no possible way for git to be affecting this.  Git doesn’t keep anything in that folder, or even touch that folder until I run a git command.  Are you not able to replicate this?  Maybe the appropriate question is what addons I’m using if that is the case?

Bob

Hey UltraBob,

I was unable to reproduce this, but I was also not using a git repo to generate the directory.

I find the opposite to be true. After renaming to a file without an extension, that file gets ignored and the new file with the extension is now the file we are working with.

Can you go ahead and list off your Add-Ons?

I am also going to ask another CAT to try and replicate.

Thanks,

That last reply gives me a sneaking suspicion that you may not be following what I’m actually doing. I am renaming the template from within the EE control panel. When I am at a computer I will try to remember to give you a step by step of exactly what I am doing. I am not renaming the files from the filesystem. I did try to name them back to something with an extension after EE stripped it out from the terminal but it was NOT the first rename operation. I will try to get a list of addons and a step by step of what I did together when I get to a computer. Can you confirm whether YOUR rename operation was within EE?

And just on a side note. My EE 2.4 install still tells me it is up to date.

Here are the steps I take to rename the template:

1. Open the template in the control panel
2. Pop open preferences
3. type in a new name
4. save

Here are my addons:

**Accessories
Mega Error
Rename Publish Tabs

**Extensions
MD Character Count

**Plugins
CE Image
Character Clipper <- Privately developed
Feed Enclosures < updated from EE1
FLV Player Plugin < updated from EE1
GWcode Categories
hier build < Privately developed
Low Yearly Archives
Markdown < updated from EE1
Parse URL < customized and updated from EE1
Rearview < updated from EE1
Show Count < Privately Developed
Site Info < Privately Developed
Sub Cat Query < privately developed
Video Finder < privately developed
World Limiter Plus < updated from EE1
XML Encode

This seems to describe my issue probably: https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/17449

It has a status of bug fixed, does that mean that this should be fixed in 2.5?  If so, I’m assuming I’ll still need to try the solution described in the bug report to get things resolved before installing the update.  I’m guessing that installing the update with the error in place would let the error continue on, perhaps without an easy way of fixing it now?

That bug report does seem to have fixed my issue.  I wish my first bug report search had been more successful.  It would have saved me 13 days.