I made a copy of my site to work on offline, but it doesnt seem to like to work.
The files are all set up properly, the database imports just fine.
When I visit the site - with firefox, it doesnt spit out an error, or a white page. It simply leaves me at the page that I was at.
If I go into the database and into the "system" table and set "status" for the comments module to 0, it works - sort of. I can browse the site, everythign comes up, exept of course comments, and I still get the non-response when I try to view the module or theme administration.
If I go into the database and set the search module's status to 0, I can get into the theme administration.
What would make the comments module prevent me from viewing the site, and the search module prevent me from administering the themes? It must be a clue!!!
Thanks all for your help! I did search for database, backups, phpmyadmin, firefox, etc. IF there is a common issue like this with a solution already posted, I do appologize.
Brian
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$base_url ?
I take it you updated your $base_url correctly in settings.php?
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Negatory, but I dont think I
Negatory, but I dont think I need to . I use the hosts file to fool my laptop into thinkin it is the same domain as my server. That should do it.. right?
~Savant
Yes.
The only thing I can think of without more information, then, is to look in your systems table and see if any of the paths are incorrect. The systems table keeps track of where all the files are, so if something got put into a slightly different place, that could cause problems. I'm guessing here. See if you can generate any more clues :-)
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The paths are all right.
The paths are all right. This is just bizzare. Even with the comments module disabled, I see the titles of the latests posts on the main page. I wonder what content it is looking for that is causing the webserver to spit out absolutely nothing on a page view. Not even a blank page or error...
Maybe ill try to invoke some deeper error reporting.
~Savant
Update: more clues
Ok, If I go through index.php and comment out everything after "include includes/common.php"
AND
I comment out everything from the date/time formating junk in includes/common.php, I can see the page, or at least I get an error.
If I let the date/time bit run, the server returns nothing when trying to view a page.
Since comments and searches use dates and times, I suppose it makes sense that it could be a time issue. So I go into the database and look to see if the time/date stuff in the register table ie smalldate, medium data, large date have any special characters or something.
I adjust each to 1 character, and that is D. I should just get the day with any time/date display.
Uncomment everythign and...... server fart. Doesnt send a page, no html headers, just nothing. What can be doing this?
~Savant
I can't login to administer
Do you know which table has the status for clean urls? I think that's my problem, I can't login, my page comes up fine but when i login with my admin account, it gives me a url not found error, and this: http://www.mysite.com/user/login?destination=node
It does this for every account. There's got to be an easier way to administer drupal! Everytime I make an error in a module it locks me out of my admin account. I've made the same changes over and over and then make one more change and have to restore my database and start from scratch. Is there supposed to be a .htaccess file in the main drupal directory?
Yup, the clean urls is
Yup, the clean urls is enabled in the system table I think, and yes you're supposed to have a .htaccess file in the drupal folder. (In linux anything with a . in the beggining of the file name becomes hidden, so if you are browsing the file system on a local machine, besure to "show hidden files".
Hey, isn't this supposed to by about MY problems? heh
~Savant
Aren't there enough problems to go around?
The clean urls configuration data is in the variables table. If you want to edit it to turn them off, find the row where name = 'clean_url' and set the value to i:0;
UPDATE variable SET value = 'i:0;' WHERE name = 'clean_url';
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There is one difference....
Between my home server, and my laptop.
8m memory limit on the laptop. I forget to change that... OMG
OWNED! Man that was a lot of frickin troublshooting over a simple problem.
So, if ever anyone has a server that wont spit out the page when visited, check you memory allocation in php.ini (usually 8m)
~Savant
Ah, so that's it!
Ah, so that's what the problem is. I was having the same problems after restoring my dbs on a clean system.
-aw