SOLVED - Problem activating theme on a local server

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phayz
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I have extracted Bludit 3 to a local directory and am testing it locally using the "PHP built-in web server instructions [1]. The setup launched straight away, and I set the admin user's name and password OK.

I want to use the Tagg theme, so I then extracted it to the `themes` directory. I then logged in as the admin user, went to the Themes page and in the Tagg line, selected "Activate". The result was the following error:

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The requested resource /admin/install-theme/tagg-1.1 was not found on this server.
There is definitely no file of that name. I don't know how I might progress from here.

I want a local setup while I tweak some of the theme's CSS, because I can test it immediately. To test changes on my "production" site I need to edit them locally, then upload them to my host. It's only a few steps but it takes quite some time.


[1] https://docs.bludit.com/en/getting-star ... web-server
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After further testing I confirmed I can active both the Blog X and Alternative themes. They were provided with Bludit itself, so I'd expect that. I can't understand why I can't activate the Tagg theme.
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Have uploaded the directory in the ZIP archive to the server?
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phayz
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:oops: I managed to solve my problem by renaming the `tagg-1.1` directory to `tagg`.

I had copied the zip file into my Bludit installation's `bl-themes` directory, and extracted it in the same directory. That created a `tagg-1.1` directory, and Bludit detected it OK. However, when I tried to activate that theme, I got the error message I first reported. Now that I've renamed the directory `tagg`, I can activate the theme.
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Thank you for your feedback!

That's rather strange. Which OS does your local server use?
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I'm running this locally on macOS Monterey. My production web server is running Linux.

I'm running it locally while I work on finalising my configuration, and tweak the theme. That allows me to make the changes and quickly see the result. If I was making the changes on my Macbook, then uploading and checking them, it would take longer.
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Thank you for the explanation.

On a Lynux server tagg-1.1 would be no problem. But it is better to rename it to tagg in case there are updates.
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