By jonathanbernd@aol.com on

I've just inherited a website which was set up in Drupal. (Unfortunately for me, as I don't know Drupal at all). For a variety of reasons we (non-profit working in Africa) decided to change our hosting company. I've transferred the site to point to this new company and uploaded all the files that were on the old company's ftp. There is no page showing, and as I'm used to the traditional html type of index page, I can't locate what I need to do to fix the problem and get the site (which has a ton of files, bu strangely had very few pages up) working. Any help would be more than greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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billnbell’s picture

billnbell commented

You need to move the html directory and export the mysql/postgres database.

Then look at the apache directory /var/log/httpd on CentOS and look at the error_log.

Make sure you compare php versions, apache versions and have configured the settings properly.

Bill

wildpoppy’s picture

wildpoppy commented

It may help to set up Drupal on the new host first. As a fresh installation so you know that drupal itself is up and running properly (can connect to a database that needs to exist on the new host etc).

This really isn't as daunting as it might seem. And as you say there were only a few pages of actual content might be the way to go.

If you download yourself a copy of drupal (http://drupal.org/project/drupal) there are instructions inside the folder in the install.txt file to guide you. This will also give you a better sense of what will need to be copied over once it is running and you will have the working database already connected to Drupal to import your current drupal database data into.

There are also some guides here http://drupal.org/getting-started to help you get started.