[support] Move site from Web server to local on MAMP

[prothero]

Steve:
THANKS! I knew I must have forgotten something. Since the .htaccess  
file is invisible on the local Mac OS, I missed it. When I copied it,  
all worked fine.
Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthednet.org/



On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:

> Did you copy the .htacess file to your local?
>
> Steve
>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:07 PM, prothero wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>> Drupal 6.19
>>
>> I want to move my existing web site from my web server (it works  
>> fine) to my local MAMP installation. I'm doing this because I want  
>> to learn how to use ubercart without messing up my working web  
>> site. I have several working MAMP installations, but can't get the  
>> downloaded one to work.
>>
>> I've exported the web version and imported the database into the  
>> MAMP version. No problem.
>> I've copied all of the files from the web site to the MAMP site. No  
>> problem.
>> I've modified the setups.php folder to account for the MAMP port  
>> for the db and base URL port (8889 and 8888),
>> I've run update.php with free access set to true.
>>
>> The front page shows up fine, BUT:
>> Here's the problem:
>> When I click on any of the menu buttons, I get a
>> "The requested URL /node/51 was not found on this server."
>> error.
>> BUT: if I use http://baseURL/?q=node/4 address (for example), I get  
>> the page. But I have clean urls set to true and
>> addresses like: http://baseURL/node/4 give me the "page not found"  
>> error.
>> I also get this error with URL's like: http://baseURL/admin/settings/clean-urls
>>
>> I DO have cleanURL's turned on, but obviously there is something I  
>> need to change that I don't know about.
>>
>> What might be the problem?
>>
>> Thanks, for any help,
>> Bill
>>
>> William A. Prothero
>> http://earthednet.org/
>>
>>
>>
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