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By Paras Kuhad on
I am a new guy to Drupal.
But this kind of problem is out of my understanding..
I installed some modules like..views, panels , acidfree albums , nice menus.
Site development was in initial stage..
Everything was going fine....
suddenly when i clicked at administer/site building /modules...
after a long time...it displayed "page not found"..
however it was not a 404 error.
I delved in listing of similar problems but not found a solution....
has my site crashed?
do i need to start everything from scratch?..
is there any way to traverse back?
please help ...
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Too many modules
When someone starts working with Drupal, first you got fascinated by various modules, get all, enable all and site - boom, page not found.
So, there are a few questions you have to answer:
1. What is your knowledge level of web skils, server setup skills, general computer familiarity...
2. Are you working on shared hosting (which?) or on localhost (your computer with some XAMPP..)
3. How many modules do you have (inactive/active)
Only after these questions answered, there are others that can go past your vague descriptions.
In general:
1. Try to deactivate (and then uninstall) as much modules as possible (all not being used or not crucial)
2. Then run update.php and cron.php
These are not advanced hints but are not for those unfamiliar with MySQL:
If you still have occasional page not found then there could be some serions database problems so you shuld think of droping all tables and going again.
If modules is inacccesible and you know how to run SQL put this in phpMyAdmin:
UPDATE system SET status=0 WHERE `filename` LIKE '%sites/all/modules%' AND `status` = 1This will deactivate all modules that are not contributed, leaving you with core modules.
You could try droping also cache tables...
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Mladen Đurić
Koder, Professional Development School
Of course, you could look
Of course, you could look into some of these suggestions, too: http://drupal.org/node/158043
-Corey
Problem arised with a few modules enabled...
I think this is obvious while working with a powerful CMS that you are fascinated with modules.
These problem might come in modules installation.
So I made brief run of my site on localhost and faced the same problem, you can say like a 'boom' .
1. So after making myself comfortable with modules on localhost...(I am not familiar with drupal api )...I installed it on ==> shared hosting <== on which i am working.
2. I enabled them one by one and made myself sure...that everything was going fine.
3. So far I had : -
acidfree, addthis, add to favorites, contact, mollom, nice menus, panels, profile, search, views, throttle with core modules and they all are working fine.
4. I had no extra module that was being used.
I was planning to add some content but still can't infer the catastrophic cause that brought this problem :D. According to provided suggestion. I altered the 'status' condition in 'system' table of drupal database and deactivated all contributed modules but still having the problem.
I also changed the php's max_execution_time to 0 (infinite) but in vain.
So if there is any suggestion I would like to follow....
Thanks for these details....I am glad to receive such a specific reply :)
If you are getting a
If you are getting a drupal-themed "Page not found" in http://example.com/admin/build/modules check the following:
- Can you access the page using http://example.com/?q=admin/build/modules ? If you can, then it is a problem with your clean URLs setup.
- Run update.php. Even if there are no updates, it rebuilds the menus. If it does not complete successfully, then you may need to increase your PHP memory_limit first.
Not only activated but installed as well
While Drupal is enumerating (calling to report themselves) all modules, if the list is too long (on shared hosting that could be even more than 70) you can run into problem.
So, it is not only the question if you made them active, it is also question if you put too many modules in sites/all/modules.
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Mladen Đurić
Koder, Professional Development School
Is there any risk factor in using nightly development snapshot..
I think the problem was caused by acidfree module....
I don't know whether it is the real cause...just a surmise becuase it was a 'dev snapshot' and the problem occured just after installing and a little use of it.
I just read this and installed ->
"This is the -dev release of Acidfree. It seems to work okay with the 6.x version of Image. It doesn't have an 'upgrade path' but I don't think the database schema has changed any from 5.x, so feel free to test it out and report. "
but i didn't think that it would 'crash' my drupal's back end.
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So far, I am again trying with my new drupal installation. As the contents that i uploaded were not so much to be brooded over.
New experiments.....new learning curves.....going strictly through drupal documentation and testing on localhost.
thanks for the guidance..
Hey.....I have to exhibit my product gallery on my drupal site...is there any suggestion!
I have 147 modules (88
I have 147 modules (88 enabled). If I enable one more, the problem arises, not only in admin/build/modules but in admin/% :( My PHP memory limit is 96 MB, and if I drop ONE module (anyone), the problem disappears, site run very fast.
I can't understand!
Got same problem and solved
I got the same problem and following the tip here: http://drupal.org/node/158043
then read the error log, found this: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 109 bytes)
so I changed the memory limitation in php.ini :http://drupal.org/node/31819
restart httpd, everything is fine :)