It might be the clean urls on the new installation are not working. If your source installation has clean urls enabled and working and you use that backup, you need to have clean urls enabled and working on the new installation. You could disable clean urls on the new site by logging in using /?q=user and then go to /?q=admin/settings/clean-urls and disable it there until you solved the server problem.
Good luck,
Hans www.koba.be
2011/2/26 James R Stone fndtn357@gmail.com
I have moved sites before this problem, but have never experienced this; I could use some troubleshooting advice.
I moved my domain from one hosting service (GoDaddy) to a new hosting service (HotDrupal).
This works fine.
I moved my website from one hosting service (Hostgator) to a new hosting service (HotDrupal).
- I created a new database and a sub-domain called "
ported.mywebsite.com" inside of "mywebsite.com/sites".
- I ran an import to the new database with the original website's data.
- I moved all of the files, from the original website, into the new
sub-domain directory.
- The settings.php file did not need to be modified except for changing
localhost to "127.0.0.1".
Everything works fine and I was able to log in as /user/1 and work on the website at "ported.mywebsite.com".
** This is where the problem happens.
- I moved my website from "ported.mywebsite.com" to "mywebsite.com" on
the server ("mywebsite.com" is the domain and "ported.mywebsite.com" is a sub-domain).
- I ran an import to the database with "ported.mywebsite.com's" data.
- I moved the "sites" directory from "ported.mywebsite.com" replacing "
mywebsite.com's" sites directory.
I can no longer log in as /user/1.
- I told the Drupal application that I could not remember the password
and it emailed me a one time log in that did not work.
- I modified the password from phpmyadmin by creating a new one and
adding MD5 hash. I cannot log in.
- I changed a user's rid to administrator (a role I gave all
permissions to) and logged in with that username but I was unable to login to the administration menu (even thought it is one of the allowed permissions within the admin role I created).
Some pertinent (?) information Old cPanel Version 11.28.83 | Apache version 2.2.17 | PHP version 5.2.15 | MySQL version 5.1.52 New cPanel Version 11.28.76 | Apache version 2.2.16 | PHP version 5.2.14 | MySQL version 5.0.91-50-log
.htaccess looks okay. settings.php looks okay.
-- Best Regards, James R Stone fndtn357@gmail.com
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