[support] moving Drupal 6 web site issue

[KOBA | Hans Rossel]

It might be the clean urls on the new installation are not working. If your
source installation has clean urls enabled and working and you use that
backup, you need to have clean urls enabled and working on the new
installation. You could disable clean urls on the new site by logging in
using /?q=user and then go to  /?q=admin/settings/clean-urls and disable it
there until you solved the server problem.

Good luck,

Hans
www.koba.be

2011/2/26 James R Stone <fndtn357 at gmail.com>

> I have moved sites before this problem, but have never experienced this; I
> could use some troubleshooting advice.
>
> I moved my domain from one hosting service (GoDaddy) to a new hosting
> service (HotDrupal).
>
> This works fine.
>
>
> I moved my website from one hosting service (Hostgator) to a new hosting
> service (HotDrupal).
>
>
>    - I created a new database and a sub-domain called "
>    ported.mywebsite.com" inside of "mywebsite.com/sites".
>    - I ran an import to the new database with the original website's data.
>    - I moved all of the files, from the original website, into the new
>    sub-domain directory.
>    - The settings.php file did not need to be modified except for changing
>    localhost to "127.0.0.1".
>
>
>
>> Everything works fine and I was able to log in as /user/1 and work on the
>> website at "ported.mywebsite.com".
>
>
> ** This is where the problem happens.
>
>
>    - I moved my website from "ported.mywebsite.com" to "mywebsite.com" on
>    the server ("mywebsite.com" is the domain and "ported.mywebsite.com" is
>    a sub-domain).
>    - I ran an import to the database with "ported.mywebsite.com's" data.
>    - I moved the "sites" directory from "ported.mywebsite.com" replacing "
>    mywebsite.com's" sites directory.
>
>
> I can no longer log in as /user/1.
>
>    - I told the Drupal application that I could not remember the password
>    and it emailed me a one time log in that did not work.
>    - I modified the password from phpmyadmin by creating a new one and
>    adding MD5 hash. I cannot log in.
>    - I changed a user's rid to administrator (a role I gave all
>    permissions to) and logged in with that username but I was unable to login
>    to the administration menu (even thought it is one of the allowed
>    permissions within the admin role I created).
>
>
> Some pertinent (?) information
> Old       cPanel Version 11.28.83 | Apache version 2.2.17 | PHP version
> 5.2.15 | MySQL version 5.1.52
> New     cPanel Version 11.28.76 | Apache version 2.2.16 | PHP version
> 5.2.14 | MySQL version 5.0.91-50-log
>
> .htaccess looks okay.
> settings.php looks okay.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> James R Stone
> fndtn357 at gmail.com
>
>
> "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can
> contribute."
>
>
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