By late4adate on

Hello,
Thanks to you all in advance for your assistance. Here's my problem.
I am migrating drupal from one Ubuntu server to another.
I did the db dump, tar and unpack. I even tested my dbase connection on the new site. I edited the settings.php file, made sure I have .htaccess in the drupal folder etc. However, I am still getting the "page cannot be found error" when I try to click on the links.

The homepage loads ok but is complaining about missing image toolkit. In addition, I cannot access the admin panel as I get the page not found error.

I'm sure it's something basic so I would greatly appreciate any assistance!

Thank you

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ciperl commented

Not sure if this is helpful (just trying to think about possibilities)... but was your site on the old server using Clean URLs? Was that set correctly when you transfered the site to the new server.

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late4adate commented

Hi...yes as a matter of fact it was. However, not sure where to check that as I dont have access to the admin panel at all. Which file would that information be located in?

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vm commented

It's not in a file , its a column in your DB

Try accessing the admin area with it's dirty url equivilent
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late4adate commented

but the links dont take me anywhere (page not found). I'm guessing you are hip to my problem?

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vm commented

The problem is related to you not not turning off urls before you hopped servers.

You have two choices, go into the DB and disbale clean urls
make a new backup of DB with clean urls disabled

a third option would be to replace .htaccess , or remove it and see what the site does.
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late4adate commented

Thanks for the help. I turned off clean urls and it worked. However, I have a new problem which I am trying to read up on. My admin panel says that no image toolkit is installed and is using a default. However, I cannot see any of the images on the site. I'm sure I'll stumble upon the solution but any ideas will help!

Thank you!

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vm commented

not showing up, doesn't tell me much. Are you getting a broken image placard ? have you inspected the paths?

are these image files being stored in the files folder ? if so, try removing the .htaccess in that folder.
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late4adate commented

Sorry, I'll try and be more clear... and I misrepresented myseld earlier.
All images in the files folder show up. The ones that dont are in the themes folder (the site background image, nav background etc). I do suspect it has something to do with the paths like you pointed out. I'm looking into it..

You've helped - Im getting there!

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vm commented

try clearing the cache tables in the DB if the paths are correct.
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