By chaloum on

this is most probably the wrong forum but this is the nearest I can find. I've been trying to migrate a D7 site from a dev server to Netregistry hosting basically in a nutshell I can access the first page but after that nothing.
I had to remove the htaccess file as that was causing the site to crash. ive changed the base url and cookies to reflect the Production url I've event commented them out but to no avail I just can get the site to load.

I done some searching on Google and it seems a common problem but I cant find a solution.

Does anyone know what and how to resolve the issue?

thanks

Marcel

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alexrayu commented

You need to go through the following steps:

1. Check if your new hosting provider supports .htaccess and has mod_rewrite running on server. See the full requirements list here: http://drupal.org/requirements
2. Truncate (empty) the tables in the database that start with cache_ , watchdog, and session. Then, export the database and download. You can use Backup and Migrate module to do it: http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
3. Move the database to the new server.
4. Move the code base to the new server, changing the /sites/default/settings.php file as to have the new database url, username, and password.

That should be enough for it to work.