October: Changes not applied from htm or css

[abdufarag]

• OctoberCMS Build: ###
• PHP Version: 7.3
• Database Engine: mysql
• Plugins Installed: spot/shipment vdomah roles
• theme: spotlayer

Description:

when I make changes to htm page I cant see the changes even if iI have disabled totally the page for testing it still work as no updates made , I update the htm changes of the theme under theme/pages/dashboard . even tried the same under vendor but stil the changes not affected.
Some times it works fine and other times nothing working on the same page!

Steps To Reproduce:

1. open page: themes/spotlayer/pages/dashboard/settings.htm
   added fields and removed other fields

2. refresh the front end page /dashborad/settings
   Expected behaviour: should see the changes (actually some times it works)
   Result: No changes to the page

[LukeTowers]

Sounds like a caching issue. Do you have any caching plugins installed? Are you using a CDN or other caching layer on your network or server stack? Did you try running php artisan cache:clear?

[abdufarag]

I have found the issue , it was due to the following:
before I made any changes I have copied the template file for example settings.htm to settings-backup.htm
this made the system took the first alphabetical file first and ignored th rest of files since the are the same view
So what I have seen is settings-backup.htm
I have solved this issue by taking backup files outside and keep only the working files in the system

[mjauvin]

best way to do this @abdufarag is to copy to settings.htm.bak then it shouldn't be picked-up as a template file

[abdufarag]

best way to do this @abdufarag is to copy to settings.htm.bak then it shouldn't be picked-up as a template file