[support] Base URL Problem

[Ron Mahon]

Yes I copied all the files from the production Linux machine! No difference.


-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Miles [mailto:merlin at logrus.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:17 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Base URL Problem

Ron Mahon wrote:
> I am setting up a new test server on Ubunt Linux. Every thing was 
> looking Good, until I tried to get past the first page in Drupal.
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> I copy this whole site directory from Windows to Linux the databases are 
> identical every thing is the same.
> 
> Except that the windows machine used php5. The Linux machine is using 
> php4.3.
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> I figure it's something to do with the apache 2 setup or configuration.
> 
> This is the base string
> 
> $base_url = 'http://localhost/inmrc';
> 
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> This is the error I get.
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> The requested URL /inmrc/user was not found on this server.

Did you get the .htaccess file copied over? Windows didn't need it, and
.files 
in Linux are hidden so cp won't see them without specifying them
specifically. 
The .htaccess is how Apache knows to send those not founds to Drupal.