tparker

I’d be interested to find out what the cause is of this problem.

I also had the ‘a:1:{s:5:./././././././././././././././././././././tmp’ problem with the active_plugins field in the database – as well as the same problem with the directory specified for uploads.

Resetting these back to what they should be (just empty the active_plugins, and fix the file uploads path) managed to resolve my problem.

What is causing this? Some sort of bug / loophole in WordPress?

Hmm… thanks for that.

I stared and stared at the wp-config.php file but didn’t notice a problem…. But as you suspected – it was right there. Thanks for pinpointing the error ; a ‘b’ and ‘d’ look very similar in a boring text console screen!