[support] Strange Drupal 7 problem, site wants to reinstall

[Jeff Brown]

The files are fine. It's reading them.

Seems more like a database issue.

On 13 Nov 2013, at 8:48 AM, Roger wrote:

> I have a D7 site live and working.
> I copied the database and /sites folder and did a fresh install  of
> D7.23 to my pc about a month ago.
> Using that on my Fedora 19 desktop version for development ideas, all
> worked well and I was doing some dev work till late last night.
>
> Today I cannot open that Drupal  localhost/mydev .
> I have a localhost/sandbox site which does work. All file ownerships  
> and
> permissions are the same on sandbox and mydev.
> To use, localhost/mydev wants to do a fresh installation.
> /sites/default/settings.php is the same as it was last night but even
> after chmod 777 settings.php, install reports that it does not exist.
> /sites/default/files is the same as last night but it reports that
> /sites/default/files does not exist.
>
> I suspect that it may be an ownership problem where /files and  
> settings
> have to be owned by apache but have not had this issue on other test  
> dev
> sites, or maybe apache has calked it again but that does  not explain
> the /sandbox site working.
>
> Can someone please advise me on what to look for and what permissions
> should apply to appropriate files, perhaps even suggest why things may
> have changed between last night and this afternoon.
>
> Most curious
> Thanks in advance
> Roger
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