By spanders on

I am trying to migrate my Drupal 5 installation from a lighttpd server running on Gentoo to IIS7 on Windows 2008. I did a test migration a couple weeks ago and it worked without too many issues, today is a different story.

Through various troubleshooting steps, I have found that something in my database is causing endless 302 redirects on every page on my site. Does anyone know what could possibly be in the database that would do that?

I have confirmed it is something in this specific database that works in lighttpd but does not work in IIS. The actual MySQL server is the same server in both cases. The theme isn't the problem because if I connect the theme to an older version of the database I don't have the redirect issue. I have cleared the cache tables and clean_urls are disabled.

Thanks for any help.

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WorldFallz commented

did you turn off clean urls?

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spanders commented

Yes, they are disabled in my settings.php file. But I have also confirmed that its not a rewrite issue. I think something in my database is causing drupal_goto() to be called on every page, but who knows, its very strange.

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WorldFallz commented

hmmm... do you use the global redirect module?

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spanders commented

No. I've seen a lot of redirect posts related to that module here too, but I don't have it installed.

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WorldFallz commented

perhaps try disabling all contributed modules (you can do that in the system table in the db) and then add them back one by one to see if it's a contrib that's causing the problem.

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
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spanders commented

Great reminder Worldfallz. It was module securepages. Event though I wasn't accessing any pages I had configured in securepages to require https, something in the bootstrap process must have been checking for SSL support and I had not enabled it yet on my IIS7 server.

Thanks for the help.

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WorldFallz commented

i didn't really help, but you're welcome ;-)

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz