[support] copy live site to devel on home pc

[Gabriele Giorelli]

try to put a new settings.php (copied from the default one) and when it
asks you to enter the database, point to the one you imported.

best,

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Using Drupal 7.10 everything fully updated.
> Following the drupal.org instructions I zipped the live drupal site,
> downloaded to my work pc.
> Unzipped  the copy to /var/www/ which recreated the identical site on my
> pc.
> Installed clean database of same name and password as the live database.
> phpmyadmin on the live site - create the copy .sql file, copied that to
> my pc then mysql newdatabase < copy.sql to create and populate the data
> tables.
>
> Everything worked well.
> However when I browse /localhost/newsite I see the site copy error
> message: "Site under maintenance".
>
> Copy folder has same permissions as my other drupal installs although I
> did notice that the copy originally had all root ownership, I changed to
> user ownership. permissions seem identical to other drupal 7 install.
> .htaccess exists.
> sites/default/settings.php exists
> settings.php has no $db_url directive mentioned in the drupal.orgtutorial.
>
>
> I have tried loging in as user, admin using the same usernames and
> passwords as the live site but cannot get past the maintenance screen.
>
> What did I do wrong?
> How should I switch off the maintenance message?
> What causes this problem and how should it be avoided in the future?
>
> How can I log in?
>
> Help greatly appreciated
> Roger
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