[support] Problem with recreating the site

[Afan Pasalic]

On 11/6/2012 6:45 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net> wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>> I had some issues with hosting company and had to leave them. But I did
>> download all files and made mysql dump (using phpMyAdmin). The site was
>> made with Drupa 6.
> Using phpMyAdmin to dump a Drupal DB is not recommended procedure, you
> may have lost some of the data due to connection timeout issues.  I
> would have used mysqldump directly instead.
I understand and, in general, I agree. Though, the database is small. I 
believe no more then 1000 records in all tables, including sessions and 
cache. :-) And I was thinking in this case phpMyAdmin will do the job, 
and make me Import easier.

>> I tried to recreate the site on my mac mini (MAMP) but wasn't
>> successful. I copied all Drupal files inside MAMPS/htdocs (didn't forget
>> .htaccess) and created a database with the same name and imported mysql
>> dump (using also phpMyAdmin).
> What about user and password?  Check your settings.php file.

I changed the database username and password in settings.php, as stated 
a little bit below.

>> Then made the change in settings file (line 92: $db_url =
>> 'mysqli://root:root@localhost/mydbname';)
> Is the password to your root user root?
These are default values in MAMP on my local machine, my desktop (Mac 
Mini) and it's accessible by me only. I didn't see any big reason to 
change it. I just wanted to recreate it and localy move it from Drupal 6 
to Drupal 7 and then move it (again) to new hosting.

>> Result is completely blank page.
>>
> Check the php, apache and system log files.  Maybe your memory_limit
> needs adjusted?
Very good idea! Why I didn't think about the basic thing?!?!?!?
:(

>> What am I doing wrong?
> I don't know, add a php file that simply does <?php phpinfo(); ?>.
>

Thanks a lot
:)