[support] development copy of site fails

[Joel Willers]

>From the sounds of it, Drupal can't find the thing you're looking for. If you ADD ?q= to pages, does that work? I've had problems in the past where subdirectories caused a very similar problem, always bumping me back home. It was an .htaccess and settings.php problem. 

Joel 



-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bert Van Kets
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 4:09 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] development copy of site fails

Hi people,

I have been asked to make changes to a Drupal 6 site that was _not_ developed by me. To make sure the changes don't break anything I want to set up a local copy of the site.
The first thing I need to do is remove a Google Maps install. This is done using modules and not in the theme files.
When starting the local copy the Google Maps script tells me I need a new key and then throws me to the home page. I can log in as admin, but the message for the Google maps key keeps popping up and throwing me to the home page.
I disabled every module containing gmaps in the name directly in the database, but that didn't change a thing.
I assumed the key was linked to the domain name, but even setting the URLs in the hosts file and creating new virtual hosts in Apache didn't solve the problem. No matter what page I request I still get only the home page and can't get into the admin pages.
I then pointed maps.google.com to the 127.0.0.1. That got rid of the request for a new key, but nothing else changed. :-( I even removed the theme directories. That only remove the styling, but not the problem of the stuck home page.

I am totally stuck.
I really need to get this site totally functioning to be able to do the changes.

Any tips are appreciated.

Bert
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