Installation confused about plugin location

Thank you very much!

esmi wrote:

Try commenting out those two lines in wp-config.php

Thanks esmi but it makes no difference. It worked that way BEFORE I added those lines to wp-config.php, and it still works the same crazy way AFTER I added them in. I then went to the Settings page and clicked ‘Submit’ (without changing anything) but that made no difference either.

I ran the “search and replace php script” but I cannot be 100% sure that it worked correctly. However, the site does run at its new location and WP READS the plugins, themes and so on from the correct location, it just continues to WRITE them (including updates) to the wrong one.

Hence my original question in the first post above:

Can anyone tell me where, in the database, is the information that tells WordPress where to operate on the installed plugins? This seems to be different than the information that tells it from where to LOAD the installed plugins. I would call this a BUG – but meanwhile, would like to find a way to correct this problem.

Thanks.

I only found one entry with the string ‘/wp/’ in the option_value field.

The option_name is “recently_edited” and the length of each sub-string (a total of five “s:xxx” values) is embedded in the data (error-prone for manual editing).

It does not seem like the “recently_edited” row should be causing these problems. But then again, I don’t understand why “recently_edited” would be considered an “option” in the first place. I surely don’t know what effect this entry is supposed to have on the site behavior.

1) Administration > Settings > General panel.

2) Changed WordPress Address and Site Address from http://wp/sitename.com to http://sitename.com.

3) Clicked “Save Changes”.

4) Copied wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes directories from public-html/wp to public-html.

5) Copied .htaccess, index.php, xmlrpc.php, and all of the wp-*.php files from public-html/wp to public-html.

6) Edited index.php (in the root directory). Changed “require(‘./wp/wp-blog-header.php’);” to “require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);”.

7) Ran the “Search and Replace for WordPress Databases Script” from here:

http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Changed all matching references from “sitename/wp/” to “sitename/”.

8) Opened the admin site which was a bit tricky. I don’t recall how I finally got into the site at this point.

9) Administration > Settings > Permalinks

10) Clicked “Save Changes”. The contents of sitename/.htaccess did not need to be changed; it already matched what was shown. It has the permalink code and nothing else.

I think that’s it.

That is exactly what I followed, or tried to follow, as well as I could understand it.

Can you point to something I did wrong?