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 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.
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Best Regards,
James R Stone
"The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute."