<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The files are fine. It's reading them.<br><br>Seems more like a database issue.<br><br>On 13 Nov 2013, at 8:48 AM, Roger wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I have a D7 site live and working.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I copied the database and /sites folder and did a fresh install of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">D7.23 to my pc about a month ago.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Using that on my Fedora 19 desktop version for development ideas, all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">worked well and I was doing some dev work till late last night.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Today I cannot open that Drupal localhost/mydev .<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have a localhost/sandbox site which does work. All file ownerships and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">permissions are the same on sandbox and mydev.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To use, localhost/mydev wants to do a fresh installation.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/sites/default/settings.php is the same as it was last night but even<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">after chmod 777 settings.php, install reports that it does not exist.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/sites/default/files is the same as last night but it reports that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/sites/default/files does not exist.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I suspect that it may be an ownership problem where /files and settings<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have to be owned by apache but have not had this issue on other test dev<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sites, or maybe apache has calked it again but that does not explain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the /sandbox site working.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Can someone please advise me on what to look for and what permissions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">should apply to appropriate files, perhaps even suggest why things may<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have changed between last night and this afternoon.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Most curious<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Roger<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]<br></blockquote><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></body></html>