ModX revo Missing System Settings after restoring on localhost - modx

Basically took a backup from server and restored it on my machine. Everything seems to be displaying correctly. But when I go to my System Settings, there are missing settings. But when I check modx_system_settings, they're there. Also cleared cache multiple times, so that's not the issue it seems.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

there is a cache_system_settings and cache_context_settings... though if you have cleared cache multiple times. actually delete the files to verify. Is it possible that you have context settings that would be overriding system settings? It would be helpful to tell us what settings are "missing"

Are you sure that the you crosschecked the same database tables? Is the table modx_system_settings the same table that MODX installation has in use?
Another possibility could be a not writable cache file in core/cache/system_settings or core/cache/context_settings.

Found the answer for my case. Basically it was server related. Live server is using linux, so when I set it up on my local which is wondows based, I had to search systems settings in DB for "locale" and update the value to English. That fixed my system settings. Everything showing now.

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Issue with Kentico DB changes

I have multiple instances of site that share the same database. I've run into an issue where I reverted a page template to its previous version and on the current site instance it looks good, but on other instances it is still uses the old version. I tried restarting the application pools, sites, database server, but it still does not reflect on other instances. I've tried Kentico's System application to restart the application, clear cache and release unused memory, but nothing works. My Kentico version is 12.0.29.
What am I missing, could you please advise on my case?
After reverting template i needed to check-in some changes that CMS made, and after pulling code my sites are the same again. Seems that Kentico saves some changes to files?
Kentico caches very heavily and this is most likely the issue you're seeing. When you say you have multiple instances, are you talking codebases or what are you talking about?
In the other instances, if you want to see the changes immediately, you need to go to the System app and clear the cache. This should help you see those changes a lot faster.
Kentico caches the data heavily as Brenden said. as per my understanding the template versions you need to verify.
If the versions are same you need to go to system module thenrelease the memory and clear the cache of the system.

Sitecore template items reset after IIS restart / application pool recycle

I have a uCommerce package installed for my sitecore. The problem exists when you start editing template items under sitecore/templates/User Defined/uCommerce definitions/. When you restart IIS or recycle application pool (apparently this happens after solution rebuild) the template items reset their values to the fixed one. What could be causing the problem? Is there any cache mechanism which could be causing this?
update: have checked the sitecore database, the field values are being saved and stored in database properly after iis reset/pool recycly, so there is pretty much confidence that it has to do something with caching
The UCommerce DataProvider (UCommerce.Sitecore.SitecoreDataProvider.DataProviderMasterDatabase) automatically adds the templates under sitecore/templates/User Defined/uCommerce definitions at start up so they will always be reset after each recycle.
First off, make sure that you are making your changes in the Master database and not the Web database. If that is not the issue, then try the following while logged into Sitecore as an administrator:
Go to http://yourdomain.com/sitecore/admin/cache.aspx
Clear the Sitecore cache
Go to the Master database's content editor and look at your templates
Make any changes necessary, save and publish
Do your IIS restart / application pool recycle (the latter occurs on every build)
Go back to http://yourdomain.com/sitecore/admin/cache.aspx
Clear the cache again (just a base-case)
Go back to the Master database's content editor and look at your templates again
If the issue occurs after trying those steps, then you should open a Sitecore support ticket and see what they say. You may also want to try making a clean install of Sitecore and trying to reproduce the issue there (Sitecore Support is likely to do this as well).
The problem was that the standard values template presentation layout I have been updating was the english version. However, there was another language version set and the layout for that version was different. When uCommerce is resetting the template on application pool recycle it doesn't take into the account the multilanguage support, so the last retrieved language version of that fieldvalue is used as reset template and that different language version with different layout was used. A partial workaround is to use the same layout for all the language versions.

Liferay not working on WebLogic Server

Very general question here:
I have Liferay 6.1.1 ga2 set up on my Oracle WebLogic 12c.
It works fine on my local, but when I deploy it onto our development server, I lose all write permissions.
E.g., changing the theme/color scheme, creating web content, pages, and saving changes to most things
I try to import LARs however it is saying it is not permitted
I'm not seeing any errors in the logs, and the control panel messages are even telling me my content was created or change successfully (besides the LARs0, but everything stays the same.
Any reason(s) why my changes aren't showing up? I'll surely give a bounty if I can get pointed in the right direction here
Given your description, I'd recommend checking OS issues, like write access to various folders, like temporary folders etc.. I guess that Liferay has proper permissions to the whole database (it's rare to have incomplete access) and can write to all tables. And you're operating on a portal-wide admin account, right?
Unrelated to LAR import, changes will not show up if you have workflow enabled - then you'd find the changes in the list of tasks that need approval.
As staging has quite an obvious UI in 6.1, I assume you don't have staging activated, otherwise you just need to publish. In order to see new portlets, make sure that the "Edit Controls" checkbox in your dockbar is checked. This has bitten me more than once.
if you're running a cluster, make sure that you have set it up correctly, e.g. that you don't see cached content on your node.
Can you confirm that you can see the options to change on the UI, just that your changes aren't persisted?
Also, please note that Weblogic 12c is not on the "supported Appservers" list for Liferay 6.1, it's there for Liferay 6.2 only (probably due to release date). This doesn't mean that it shouldn't run, just that it's not tested for your version. Further, there's a GA3 release for 6.3 already, so you might want to check if it's a problem that's fixed in GA3.

Drupal menu items and blog entries disappeared for anonymous users

I've been struggling with a problem now for a few hour and I cannot find any answers or anyone with the same problem -
Some menu items are missing on my site www.namhost.com (Drupal 6.22) and when viewing the blog it shows "No blog entries have been created". When I log in as admin everything works fine, so this problem only occurs for anonymous/guest users.
I've changed nothing on the site which may have caused this problem and here comes the really strange part - When viewing a copy of the site locally everything works 100% even for anonymous/guest users.
I've tried:
flushing caches
rebuilding permissions
checked if the "anonymous" user is present in the database
viewing on different browsers
None of these yielded any results.
Because the problem doesn't occur locally I'm starting to believe this could be a problem on the server the site is hosted on (Linux with PHP5.2), but the admins had a look and couldn't find anything.
Any help/insight would be highly appreciated.
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I am not allowed to answer my own question and it was suggested that I edit the question to include my answer so here goes:
Firstly, thanks for all the responses.
I disabled the "ACL" module (http://drupal.org/project/acl) and the problem was solved. It was previously used for our forum which was also disabled a few months back, so it's not needed any more.
I still have no idea why this module caused the site to work locally but not on the server. I will be in contact with the server admins to find out if they changed/updated anything on the server which may have caused this module to cause a malfunction.
Any insight could still be helpful top prevent this from happening again.
Check your Drupal config:
Are you using node_access, content_access, or any other permissions-related addon mods? Disable them and see if the problem persists. If that doesn't work, disable all non-core mods and re-enable them one-at-a-time until you find the offender.
Compare your hosting configs:
If it's not related to Drupal, compare the local and remote server configurations. Do both use the same versions of php, apache, apc, cgi, etc.? A phpinfo(); on both servers should give you the most important details for comparison. Do a similar comparison of the MySQL setup and content. Finally, check for differences in your .htaccess files (if any) between the two locations.
Test another hosting enviornment:
Download a virtual appliance like QuickStart which is already configured to host Drupal sites for development and non-production purposes, and see if the site works correctly in that. If it does, you could do an additional validation by porting to a new host who offers a trial/money-back-guarantee and see if it works correctly there.
If your site works fine elsewhere, give your current host a good thrashing for making you go through all of this to figure out the problem lies on their end.

How to add Tridion site in Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager?

I am working SDL TRIDION 2011 SP1 version. Suddenly I am unable to see the Trdion site in Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager. Please tell me the procedure how to get it back again.
Remove Tridion Completely (uninstall), then run the installer again.
You won't loose any data (it's all in the database), and you're likely to get your server up and running way faster than trying to fix by hand.
As #bart suggested, your best option to get the web application back (assuming it really has gone), is to run the repair option with the installer. There are a lot of folder specific settings which would be very hard to recreate manually.

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