[support] Invalid Links After Moving Site

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>:

> I created a Drupal site in two different places - a subdomain on my 
> hosting account, and on my local machine.  It's finally ready
> to go live, so I uploaded the files to the new web server where it 
> belongs.  I uploaded the files via FTP, created the database,
> and then used a dump from my local PC to create the tables on the 
> server.  When I pull up the site (using the IP address and user
> id, i.e. http://12.12.12.12/~acctname), the main page comes up fine.  
> When I hover over a link, such as to the contact page, it
> shows correctly in the status bar (http://12.12.12.12/~acctname).  
> But when I click on any link, I get
>
> http://12.12.12.12/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/~acctname/contact
>
> where the user id is duplicated 20 times.  I called my host, and they 
> say it's something internal.  I have a hard time believing
> that, since it runs fine in two other places.  Could something have 
> happened in the move that screwed something up?
>

What tables did you dump?  Some just shouldn't be copied.  Sessions, 
cache, cache_*; these can be truncated.  You may need to look at the 
individual data in variables and system.

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