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

[Chris Ferrell]

Try stoping and starting the server. I've had that happen before. It sounds
like it's just not looking at the correct db.

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, Jeff Brown wrote:

> The files are fine. It's reading them.
>
> Seems more like a database issue.
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> On 13 Nov 2013, at 8:48 AM, Roger wrote:
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> I have a D7 site live and working.
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> I copied the database and /sites folder and did a fresh install  of
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> D7.23 to my pc about a month ago.
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> Using that on my Fedora 19 desktop version for development ideas, all
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> worked well and I was doing some dev work till late last night.
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>
> Today I cannot open that Drupal  localhost/mydev .
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> I have a localhost/sandbox site which does work. All file ownerships and
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> permissions are the same on sandbox and mydev.
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> To use, localhost/mydev wants to do a fresh installation.
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> /sites/default/settings.php is the same as it was last night but even
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> after chmod 777 settings.php, install reports that it does not exist.
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> /sites/default/files is the same as last night but it reports that
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> /sites/default/files does not exist.
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>
> I suspect that it may be an ownership problem where /files and settings
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> have to be owned by apache but have not had this issue on other test dev
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> sites, or maybe apache has calked it again but that does  not explain
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> the /sandbox site working.
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>
> Can someone please advise me on what to look for and what permissions
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> should apply to appropriate files, perhaps even suggest why things may
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> have changed between last night and this afternoon.
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>
> Most curious
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> Thanks in advance
>
> Roger
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