I currently have a test sever on an online webhost. I am nearly finished and am looking to transfer it to the server it needs to be on which is an intranet at my school. I have managed to move the site and get the home page to show but it does not show properly. No menus or side panels, even the whole front page doesnt show. Im not sure what I have to do next. I tried replacing the lines in the drupal database that had my domain name with the name of the localhost but had the same effect and did not work.
my web server is at dreamhost which is a linux debian server
my local machine is a windows 2003 server with latest wamp server.
going between linux and windows shouldnt matter right since it is all html and php code. I could be wrong. Im not sure what else I can try. all my httpd.conf and php.ini settings seem correct and can get the database to imort without problems into phpmyadmin/mysql
My webhost account site is set up as:
-Drupal
-Drupal/sites/mysite.com
The local host im not sure how to change because im not using that domain name. the homepage on a computer to show the main pafe is:
- http://mysite/
and this points to the drupal folder:
- C;\wamp\www\mysite\
any help would be greatly appreciated
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Pop down to your nearest second hand computer store and buy a real el cheapo desktop (almost anything worth selling will happily run linux), reformat, install linux. There are differences between web servers, and windows is just so nonstandard from everything else (linux, mac, solaris, bsd, etc. are all unixes, doze isn't). It isn't worth the hassle trying to deal with windows. I have shifted a remote site to a local one with absolutely no problems, but they were both linux.
The go and get a belkin splitter (it allows one mouse, keyboard and screen to switch between two computers). Then you can boot whatever you like on your main PC and access your server on your el cheapo PC.
- Empty all database tables
- Empty all database tables which contain "cache" in their names.
- Check your settings.php, the $base_url line, for any references to the old site.
- Hover over the links in the home page and see if they look right. What exactly happens when you click on one?
- Can you browse to /user to login? If not, can you browse to /?q=user ?
- If you manage to login, just visit the /admin/build/modules and /admin/build/themes pages (that updates the paths).
Wish i could use linux
Even though i am the webmaster the place i am doing this for needs the windows server, as much as I would like to make the switch to linux (though im not too familiar with it yet). so moving to linux isnt an option.
I have already emptied all the cache tables. and when testing i did not enable clean url's so as to cause less problems. lol. I am able to log in when i go to ?q=user but the only thing that shows on the page is the teaser thats on the main page. I have not tried going to the modules or themes homepage. I will try that. thanks will let you know what happen.
When I can I will try to post some screens to you can see whats going on. Im just not at the computer at the moment. Now, with the settings.php the only line i had to change was the database access. since i am using wamp, what would i need to change in the httpd.conf or the php.ini ? I changed what i thought was neccessary.
Anyways i will post after I have tried you tips. thanks.
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Missing theme
The symptom you describe sounds like an invalid theme path
- either the theme folder wasn't copied
- or was moved somewhere else in transit
.. and you end up with the bare minimum attempt at 'content' (often without sidebars even)
To navigate, you must enter the actual URLs to get to where you need to fix it. It your case, possibly /admin/build/themes
Half the time, just VISITING and SAVING that page will auto-detect where the missing theme really is (the same goes for modules)
If not, you'll see that the theme you want isn't available or needs to be selected or something.
.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/
.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards
thanks for the tip
Hey yea thanks for the tip. will make sure the theme was put in the right places. thanks
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"Anything worth having in life, is not going to be easy"
"There is nothing to fear, but feat itself. And segfaults ... I really hate those"