NextGEN Gallery still pointing to local drive

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I recently moved a wordpress site from my C: drive to a pre-production environment, linux-based machine. The site works well-ish now.

I am using NextGEN galleries there and am using custom gallery theme. This is the problem: After moving, for some reason the galleries refer to the gallery with absolute path of the C: drive, which is obviously not working since this is another machine. I looked into the database to see if there’s any value starting with C: and indeed I found out several of them and corrected them from C:xampphtdocs/wp-content/themes/subspacenggallerygallery-subspace.php to wp-content/themes/subspacenggallerygallery-subspace.php. However, after refreshing the page which used the gallery in WYSIWYG editor of WP and checking its settings, it stil referred to the template on the C: drive (namely, this is on the “display galleries tab”, under “Customize the display settings”, it is the value of the “Template” setting).

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I checked the database again and there was no path like this in it. I refreshed the page, no difference. I got irritated and went to get a cup of coffee. When I returned, I ran the database query without any modifications again and found this in the wp_options table, option name "_transient_e4ae686b7454a142b0618b1ff15b38f4": 

O:8:"stdClass":17:{s:2:"ID";i:4018;s:13:"post_password";s:0:"";s:10:"menu_order";i:0;s:16:"display_settings";a:20:{s:27:"override_thumbnail_settings";s:1:"0";s:15:"thumbnail_width";s:3:"120";s:16:"thumbnail_height";s:2:"90";s:14:"thumbnail_crop";s:1:"1";s:15:"images_per_page";s:2:"24";s:17:"number_of_columns";s:1:"0";s:15:"ajax_pagination";s:1:"1";s:20:"show_all_in_lightbox";s:1:"0";s:23:"use_imagebrowser_effect";s:1:"0";s:17:"show_piclens_link";s:1:"0";s:17:"piclens_link_text";s:14:"[Show PicLens]";s:19:"show_slideshow_link";s:1:"0";s:19:"slideshow_link_text";s:16:"[Show slideshow]";s:8:"template";s:73:"C:xampphtdocs/wp-content/themes/subspacenggallerygallery-subspace.php";s:19:"use_lightbox_effect";b:1;s:23:"display_no_images_error";i:1;s:18:"disable_pagination";i:0;s:17:"thumbnail_quality";s:3:"100";s:19:"thumbnail_watermark";s:1:"0";s:20:"ngg_triggers_display";s:5:"never";}s:8:"order_by";s:9:"sortorder";s:15:"order_direction";s:3:"ASC";s:10:"exclusions";a:0:{}s:13:"container_ids";a:1:{i:0;i:37;}s:22:"excluded_container_ids";a:0:{}s:9:"sortorder";a:0:{}s:10:"entity_ids";a:0:{}s:7:"returns";s:8:"included";s:20:"maximum_entity_count";s:3:"500";s:6:"source";s:9:"galleries";s:12:"display_type";s:35:"photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails";s:4:"slug";N;s:8:"id_field";s:2:"ID";}

Which, as you can see contains the C: path again. I’m 100% positive this wasn’t in the database a while ago and repeated the process with the same result (corrected this, waited a minute and it appeared again). Is it possible that this is pulled e.g. from some file?

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  1. You can follow the steps mentioned below:

    In the wp-admin, go to “Gallery” -> “Other options” then, Click to “Lightbox effects” tab and Click “Show advanced settings” there, you’ll find option to change the stylesheet and javascript urls. Change from ‘localhost‘ to your baseurl or ( 127.0.0.1 ). Then save. Thats all.

  2. Let me see if i can help.

    Warning : do not try on production, get a dev or appropriate local version running. Also — can’t remember using NextGen, so my advice comes from a desire to do “best” practice in WP.

    Easy try : kill cache if used such as JetPack or similar.

    Regrading the _transient – should be able to kill — this link Can I remove transients in the wp_options table of my WordPress install? seems to be dialed in. So if there is a cached element in the mix…bingo.

    Next thing is the C:...stuff rendered in the page source / html? If so, how is it rendered in the page (HTML please)? In other words, what part of the execution is writing C:... to the page and why? WP has a bad habit of adding the site to the link (grr!). For example image src attribute will have the “http://“` :

    <img src="http://example.com/uploads/whatev..."

    And this is written in the wp_posts table (fun migration issues esp if you change url) – so there is a slim possibility that the gallery info with the C drive ref is in the post or similar.

    iD10t check: no config setting you missed in gallery? I hope there is not a 3rd party server/storage as @Hareesh mentioned!

    Desperation (done this a few times) : dump the MySQL, get a large text editor and search for the string. Remember that weird stuff could be escaped as a " may turn into " or the use of alternative “safe” quotes. See what can be learned.

    Always an option : reinstall in a new WP site and see what/how things go.

    If I think of anything else I will add it, but I just spilled how I would try to dissect the issue. GOOD LUCK.