By labourstart on

I've upgraded Drupal from 6.3 to 6.4 on this website - http://www.rmtplatform.org.uk

And now I get an Error 500 when I click on anything. The front page shows up, but click on any link and the error appears.

I tried to disable the .htaccess file, but this had no effect.

I've run update.php - twice. Didn't help.

Any ideas? This is urgent, as you can imagine.

Thanks!

Eric

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labourstart’s picture

labourstart commented

A colleague pointed out that the problem appeared to be in the .htaccess file -- that you could actually get to any page if you inserted the "?q=" bit. I simply uploaded my backed-up .htaccess (thank God for backups) and it's all fine, so far.

I wonder what Drupal did to .htaccess (or I did?) that caused the problem ...

Eric

Web design and internet consulting for the trade union movement:
http://www.ericlee.info

Eugene Dubois’s picture

Eugene Dubois commented

It is a hidden file...

Maybe not copied because of that?

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

I had the same problem, which was also fixed by uploading the backup. I started looking at the differences between the files, and I noticed that my old .htaccess had the following line at the top (before the Drupal settings), which was probably added by my host:

RewriteBase /

Looking through the new .htaccess file, near the bottom, you'll find this:

# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
# RewriteBase /

So, I re-uploaded the new .htaccess file from version 6.4, uncommented out that line, and everything works great.

BobtheViking’s picture

BobtheViking commented

Same here, just to confrm. 6.3 to 6.4 and everything is coming up 500 until I uncomment the ReWrite line.