By corinamcnamara on

I just installed Drupal 7.21, when I try to access me database I get a page with the Drupal logo and error message "The requested page "/drupal-7.12/" could not be found." ___ does anyone know what I can do fix this or what I have done wrong.

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john_b commented

The post is not clear. However, is there any reason you have left Drupal in a subdirectory called drupal-7.12? It should work but only makes things a little more difficult. Also if you unzipped the file before upload, there is every chance you have not correctly copied .htaccess, this happens all the time. There are other reasons for this error, and several different ways of installing Drupal, so the information you give is not really detailed enough to give a solution.

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plumbers20 commented

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ytfgha20 commented

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corinamcnamara commented

Thanks for replying, I am new to this so am not totally sure what I am doing, I downloaded the zip file and extracted it after download. I do have everything in the "drupal-7.12" file I didnt change that after download. Should I move one of the files out

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john_b commented

1. If you unzipped before upload, filezilla may have missed hidden files ie. file names begining with . the important one being .htaccess. I prefer to unzip or untar after upload (partly because I tend to put drupal direct onto the server from drupal.org, to avoid that extra level of complexity of downloading to desktop, then uploading again to server).

2. Yes, best move everything to document root, usually public_html or www folder
From command line, with working directory as public_html, issue commands
mv drupal-7.12/* .
mv drupal-7.12/.* .
The second command ensures you do not miss the hidden files during the move.
If you have no command line access you will have to work out how to use whichever file manager your host provides to issue the same commands. If you do have a shell access, it is much the easiest way to do things on the server, as you probably already know if you are experienced with servers.

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