Plugin configurations being overriden when not desired

Hi SHiRKiT,

I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Could you make sure that your wp-content/plugins permissions on both sites are set to 775 recursively?

Sorry for taking so long but I don’t normally update my deployment enviornment. Although this time I have set to export plugins files, it still disabled the plugins that are only found in the deployed version and not in my local. I will try again when I have set to NOT export plugins again.

No problem, SHiRKiT.
Please keep me posted.

Ok,

So I just deployed another update, and again I have exported Plugins because I needed to update some of those. Again, some of the plugins that are only present in the deployed version had their configs overriden in the Database. The plugins are listed below, but this issue is not limited to exclusively them:

Google Analytics Dashboard
Google XML Sitemaps
SEO Ultimate
WP-Mail-SMTP

Also, the migration of links from https://localhost to my deployed version URL did not work for the third time in a row. I have to use Velvet Blues Update URLs to properly update those links.

And both locations are 775.

Hi SHiRKiT,

I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Did you use Find/Replace on export?

I thought that was automatic, now that I’ve used the Find/Replace, it took effect correctly.

But there is one issue remaining and one new issue:

The plugin configurations are being overriden in the deployed database. Those plugins are not installed at the exporting side, and there are no databases associated with those plugins.

After upgrading to version 5.41, if I try to export Plugins, it get’s stuck there. It’s never able to export the plugins. If I check the DO NOT EXPORT PLUGINS, then things works.

Hi SHiRKiT,

Were these plugins already installed on your imported site before the import?

Yes,

I have a development environment that I do all my testing and coding, and then I publish to my live version.

The live environment has those plugins (and some more) that are only relevant to that environment, such as SEO, analytics, caching and mail related.

Everytime I have to reconfigure those plugins because they lose their configurations. The plugins gets disabled and it’s configs are reset to default. Other plugins (such as W3 Total Cache) have no issues with their configs, they get only disabled (which is perfectly understandable).

Hi SHiRKiT,

Is it possible for you to reach out to me at support at servmask.com, so one of my engineers can take a look further?