By blud on

I am moving my drupal site from an internet host to my own windows xp computer with EasyPHP. I got a full backup of the files from the site, and a big dump.sql file. (Someone else was hosting it, he gave me those backups and took down the old site.)

My goal is simply to be able to view the news articles and forum threads locally, so that I have access to that information.

I set up the site locally, and it is working somewhat, when I go to the home page I see news articles being pulled from the database. I am also "able" to browse the forums and see the threads. However, the site is insanely slow. It takes around 10 or 12 minutes to load a single page. Too slow for me to reasonably access the information this way.

So I wanted to use devel to try to see why it's so slow and maybe fix it. But,

When I try to log on with the administrator account, I put in the username and password and click the log in button, and the browser spins and tries to load the page. It takes about 10 minutes to load the page (I had to change various timeouts to allow it to finish loading) and when the page finally loads, you are not logged in. It still has links to Log In.

I don't know what to do about this.

Additional notes:
- the CSS doesn't load (so the pages are plain white html style if you know what I mean)

- after the menu and before the content of the page (the news or the forum posts) it says
"Error message

The file could not be created.
The file could not be created.
The file could not be created.
The file could not be created.
The file could not be created.
The file could not be created.
The file could not be created."

- at the bottom of the page it says: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 240 seconds exceeded in D:\pathtosite\mydomain.com\includes\database\database.inc on line 2168

- this is a pretty fast computer, 2.2ghz dual core, 3 GB ram, so it's not the computer that is making this slow, in case you were wondering

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