When I change my "Default Config" store scope theme under Configuration>General>Design, it will only load the default them in default/default. Or it will load a theme I used to use. But, if I try to load my new custom theme package, it can't find it. Here are the details...
Past:
I was using a theme for my default config which worked fine. It was in app/frontend/default/my_theme/ and skin/frontend/default/my_theme/.
In the Default Config General > Design tab, I had the following configuration:
Current Package Name: default/my_theme
The rest of the fields were blank. This loaded my_theme just fine.
Present:
Now I've created a multistore set up which now has 2 websites and 2 storeviews on each site. I decided to create a new theme package so I could have different "skins" for each website. I moved my_theme to:
app/design/frontend/my_theme/theme1/
skin/frontend/my_theme/theme1/
and
app/design/frontend/my_theme/theme2/
skin/frontend/my_theme/theme2/
I updated the Default Config store (the top-level global setting) under General > Design to:
Current Package Name: my_theme
Translations: theme1
Templates: theme1
Skin (Images/CSS): theme1
Layout: theme1
Default: theme1
The 2nd website in my multistore has this configuration in General>Design: Current Package Name: my_theme Translations: theme2 Templates: theme2 Skin (Images/CSS): theme2 Layout: theme2 Default: theme2
The Problem:
The 2nd website finds theme2 and loads it just fine, but my main website can't find theme1. It loads the default theme.
Troubleshooting I've tried: Changing the 2nd website to load theme1 using the same set up as Default Config - the 2nd website finds and loads theme1 just fine.
Changing the main website configuration at the "website" and "storeview" level to bypass the default and use theme1 doesn't work either.
Renaming the folder of my_themeon the server to new_themeand then updating the Default Config>General>Design package default/new_themedoesn't even work. The only thing that works is default/my_theme!
Cleared all my cache in the admin panel, and deleted all files from var/cache on the server.
Bottom line:
It seems like somehow my site has cached default/my_theme and can only find that one. I can't update the Default Config theme package to anything else. The 2nd website loads in other themes fine, but it is the main website that can only load either the default theme or the old theme.