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As i couldn't see any difference between the sites that worked and those that didn't. Nor could I see the difference between Backlight 2 and Backlight 3. I decide to do a complete overhaul of my apache setup. Because I didn't do it incrementally I cannot say which change fixed the issue but it appears to be now fixed.

One thing I did notice as i was comparing sites was the Backlight Installer folder had different versions of files, they looked as if they were the original when that particular Backlight was created. my oldest site had what looked like Backlight 1 installer files and another Backlight 2 installer files. Are these actually used or are they redundant once initial installation is complete?

no, Bilt in apache and installed PHP as default install does not have some modules missing. I cannot understand nor see any difference between two working sites and none working other than working started life as CE4 but none working started life as Backlight 2. There is no difference in the host file between all sites. hosts file the same as well (other than site name)Its almost as if the page is trying to return to the Dashboard before something is complete

A new fresh install does the same thing.

Don't know if it helps but I sometimes see this when I go to the login page https://test-ttg.site/Backlight/admin/admin/login/ (still see the login page though
But not on the other misbehaving site. Redirect htaccess issue?

It is only on two of my local sites and only occurs after upgrading to Backlight 3. So it is not any of the local server settings that I can see, as two sites work. Unfortunately, it does not give me any confidence to update the live sites.

appears to be a mac issue. Although I had rebooted my machine and then my other local sites displayed the same problem a second reboot removed the issue on all local sites

Sorry, it is my local copy. I have two other sites locally that updated to 2.014 no problem. But when I went to this site I received this message. I have updated my hosted sites no problem it is just this one local site that is doing this. Worked fine when i went to the site some weeks ago (as admin that is)

I always work on my site locally then only upload when I have tested it fully, it is the way I have worked since first using TTG some years ago.

the issue appears to be ownership files created by backlight have _www as the owner but all other files have me as the owner. this stems from apache config I think but trying to change its config file owner and user stopped it working altogether. I currently have a script that I run to change the owner. it solves the problem but more of a hack than a fix

I have cleaned the permissions on my local site to 755 on all folders, 744 on all files but to run Update Albums I had to put 777 on the backlight folder and Galleries.777 just on data allowed me to do some things but not update albums in backlight settings. This is no problem for my Local versions but i would like to know the bare minimum for more public versions

It is my local machine, my host servers are working ok. but for development purposes I localhost my three websites on my MacBook. it is that these three that have stopped updating since I upgraded my MacBook to Catalina.