I was having lots of problems with load time (greater than 2 min or not loading at all) so I changed my host to AN Host.
I own the .net and .com so I set up the site under the .net and left the .com until I got the site moved and working.
My process: download the entire site from the .com, then ftp the download to the .net. Then I exported the database from the .com and imported to the .net database.
The .net site doesn't work. The home page comes up, but all of the linked pages are missing and give 404 errors.
I got the following reply from Midphase support:
I am seeing the following error message when I try to visit any of the links on your site.
The requested URL /node/11/cid/16 was not found on this server.
Apache is throwing this error: File does not exist: /home/wikicha6/public_html/node, referer: http://wikicharlotte.net/. It seems to me that you either need to upload the files that are missing, or add a .htaccess file to create rewrite rules for these links. I guess it could also be some conflicting entries in your MySQL database. Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to say. I would recommend you contact Drupal support to see if they can point you in the right direction of a fix for this. Let us know if you have other questions.
Would appreciate help on getting my site up and running on the new host.
the URL's are wikicharlotte.com (up and running) and wikicharlotte.net (only home page works)
Thanks
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I've seen this problem before - quite often the .htaccess gets missed from the ftp transfers as it's a hidden file.
This results in a missing .htaccess and consequently no clean URL's, though the site is configured to expect them.
This in turn means that all the menu links are broken as the menu will point to e.g. http://www.example.com/node/5 when the URL is http://www.example.com?q=node/5 (due to the lack of clean URLs).
Worth checking!
Pete.
Would have never occurred to
Would have never occurred to me. Thanks so much! - Working like a charm now.
I owe you one. Thanks again.