[support] Views not enabled after backup/restore?

[Sudheer]

Roy Smith wrote:
> I'm running drupal 5.7 with the following optional modules enabled:
>
> calendar-5.x-1.7
> cck-5.x-1.6-1.
> date-5.x-1.8
> forms-5.x-1.x-dev
> nodeaccess-5.x-1.x-dev
> private_upload-5.x-1.0-beta6
> quotes-5.x-1.1
> sitecss-5.x-0.2
> survey-5.x-1.x-dev
> views-5.x-1.6
> weather-5.x-6.0
>
> I did a backup of my site database and restored it to another site (to  
> test the backup/restore process).  When I went to my frontpage, I got  
> "Page not found".  To make a long story short, it looks like the views  
> module didn't get re-enabled.
>
> I could get to the /admin page and under the Site Building heading, it  
> didn't show views.  When I went to /admin/build/modules and ran  
> update.php, everything started to work again.  Does this make sense?   
> Should it be necessary to run update.php after a database restore?
>
> Roy Smith
> roy at panix.com
>
>   
I think something is missing in your report. If the views module was not 
shown in admin/build/modules I suspect the files were not copied 
properly. It is not necessary to run update.php after a database restore 
unless you have upgraded the module files.


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With warm regards,
Sudheer. S
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