I've been running http://www.d4md.org/ under Drupal 5.1 without any issues for the past year or so.
This morning, someone informed me that when they try loading the site, they get the header, the footer, and a "Page Not Found" error in between, without anything else (no columns, no navigation, no login, etc).
I have my login saved in my browser, so I'm generally already logged in as the Admin automatically, and loading the site showed the normal home page--until I (foolishly, I guess) logged out to confirm the issue. Sure enough, I now receive nothing but the same Page Not Found display.
Loading http://www.d4md.org/?q=admin or any other direct URL doesn't do anything--it just brings up the same "Not Found" page.
I even daringly tried to upgrade Drupal to 5.3 (I had to change TRUE to FALSE in the user check line in update.php to accomplish this), and it appeared to go through properly--except that I still receive a "Page Not Found" error.
Please help! A bit desperate here (and I'm not much of a code monkey, so I'll need some hand holding when it comes to dealing with the MySQL DB or whatever).
Platform: Linux / CentOS 4.2
PHP: 4.3.9
MySQL 4.1.12
I have phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.4, if that helps.
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not much help, but...
I remember I was getting something like this back when I was switching over from the old q= style of links to those using url_rewrite... is it possible this changed recently somehow?
I don't recall making any changes of that nature
I haven't changed anything in terms of the layout, URL treatment, modules or anything like that in months. As far as I know, the hosting service hasn't updated PHP or MySQL in that time either, and I haven't changed the user permissions, roles, or anything similar. I'm stumped--the site worked perfectly for months, then sometime within the past week or so it just went kaput.
I am myself getting the same
I am myself getting the same error under same conditions. Nothing has changed from my side and suddenly, whole admin pagel is giving 403 page not found error. You can find my problem here http://drupal.org/node/196031 and I will really appreciate if you can post the solution once it get solved.
Regards
Don't ask me how, but I fixed it!
How's this for weird?
--Drupal 5.1 works fine for many months
--Suddenly, without any upgrades or changes made, it stops loading (except for header/footer/"Page not Found" message) for anyone not already logged in
--I attempt to upgrade it to 5.3 and appear to do so successfully...except it still won't load beyond the header, footer and "Page not Found" message.
--I restore the entire server back to a 3-month old version via Plesk 8.2's auto-backup/restore function
--It supposedly restores the files, but attempting to load now brings up a *completely* blank white page
--Going into phpMyAdmin reveals that the MySQL database is now an empty shell! All tables are missing.
--I manually download the Plesk-created ZIP backup file, unzip it, and use phpMyAdmin to re-import the missing tables from the .mysql file
--This gets me back to the "header/footer/page not found" status
Finally, out of sheer whimsy and frustration, I type in the full path to a random node...and the whole site loads properly!!
I'm able to log in, log out, see the site and log back in again.
I appear to have fixed it without having a clue how.
Pathauto ate my front page (temporarily)
I guess this is ancient history, but FWIW, I ran into something like this.
In my case, the Pathauto module bit me. I had created a front page (which would be the default redirect for logging out).
My reflex is to set up a URL of 'front' as the front page in the site information settings.
But Pathauto had come up with a different name which I didn't even look at first time around.
So it wasn't found...