By Filip VE on

Hello

After working on my first Drupal site for a period of several months, it was almost finished, and I decided to upgrade to the latest version. Obviously, disaster struck.
Stupidly enough, I forgot to disable the modules and put the site offline, al though I'm not sure this has anything to do with the problem.

First, I couldn't get update.php to run, this was fixed by temporarily deleting the .htaccess file in my drupal root and in my main root.
Now, update has run, but I can only access the admin home page and the frontend homepage, all other pages return a 'page not found' error.
When I put one the of my .htaccess files back, I can't even reach the homepages.

Rebuilding the menu (as described in http://drupal.org/node/262892) dit not work.

The info on http://drupal.org/node/228462 ("Page Not Found" Errors on every page except homepage.) seems to be relevant, but I can't get it to work:

  • A link like http://www.example.com/index.php?q=user does work on my site, so apparently that means there is a mod_rewrite problem.
  • I assume mod_rewrite is enabled, since I'm still on the same server and everything was working fine before.
  • When i put a standard redirect .htaccess file in my site's root, it doesn't seem to work. According to the info that would imply the problem has something to do with appache settings, but since the same server was working without any problems before, this can't be the cause.

    • Everything cleary seems to point to the .htacces file, but I still don't know what I have to do to solve the problem.
    I'm about to throw my pc from a bridge and go into a monastery, any help to avoid this would be very, very appreciated.

    Best
    Filip

    ⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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    Filip VE commented

    It seems the stress created by the thought of having destroyed my beloved Drupal site somewhat affected my brain function.

    I did not backup the .htaccess file since I though I had not changed this, but I had to comment out the 'Options -Indexes' and 'Options +FollowSymLinks' like I had done at installation.
    Everything worked fine after I changed this.

    Hope this is helpful for anybody who might be as stupid as me.