Hello all. Apologies in advance for a long explanatory post.
As per previous post because I am desperate. Our web site in Drupal 7.34 ceased to work publicly yesterday afternoon. I loaded the new Skeleton theme via /themes/ [Install New theme] all worked well.
I changed the css so that the page had a background colour, all worked for 3-4 hours then stopped with browser errors. Safari in the url field flicks between /domain/index.html and domain/folder/?=index.php about 20 times then fails. Chromium fails with Web page not available Firefox fails with This page isn't redirecting properly. - There are no redirects other than in Drupal index.php. Google is no help so far.
I reset the theme to the original mayo, cleared cache, worked once then failed so reverted to core Bartik and cleared caches every alteration but problem exists.
Now I find in cPanel/phpmyadmin that Drupal 7 has not cleared the database caches and apparently never does so, the caches contain reference to other themes and redundant data, so what's the point of Drupal Clear Cache if it doesn't clear the data.
When I last used drush cc all via ssh terminal it destroyed the database making it unusable so we reverted to an earlier version. Therefore Drush is not an option, too dangerous.
I fresh installed drupal-7.34 on the server, copied the /sites folder to the new install, /settings.php refers to the original database, started it and it too fails. So either something in the sites folder or in the database is damaged, so I am really stuck and would appreciate help. Deleting the Skeleton theme and clearing caches does not remove traces from the database caches.
I have 3 other drupal 7 installs and all work perfectly, only the main one fails. So a question would be, If I created a new database in cPanel then dumped each table one at a time from the original but not the caches into it what would that do, would it work?
What I also do not understand is, when I url to www.domain/directory/user everything works, the theme works login works and loging in as Admin the theme and site is perfect but as anonymous user browsers fail.
Waving the white flag here and need help desperately Thank you in advance Roger