I am migrating from one server to identical another, but on the new installation of drupal the options on the administration page will not drop down and/or are not clockable. They just come across as plain test.
See a screen grab at http://furryprawn.com/dropbox/drupalscreen.jpg
If I cut and paste that section it reveals all the familiar options
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* Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
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etc, but I just cannot access it.
I have tried to do several clean installs of Drupal. I have no modules installed. Its the lastest version core install. Looking around the web, I haven't seen the exact problem, but similar problems seem to be java related. But that still didn't help me find a solution.
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try clearing all cache tables in the database.
Tried that I think
I did go to the Administer>Performance page and hit "Clear cached data." and still have the same problem. Is that the same thing as clearing the "cache tables in the database."
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I don't believe so. That only clears certain cache tables but not all. Admin_menu or devel.module does have methods to clear all cache.
the expandable menu options that are affected are javascript related, another thing to check is that all .js files in the misc folder are indeed there and uncorrupted.
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Make sure Optimize JavaScript files: is disabled in the admin performance section
What a responsive
What a responsive community:
1) Made sure Optimize JavaScript files is disabled
2) Installed devel module and went to to Administer -> Blocks and enable the Devel block. Its enabled but it does not show up on the menu so I cannot hit the clear cache button. Not sure if its related to my java problem.
3) Replaced all .js files from my working production site.
4) Can cron
5) Installed Admin_menu which I actually love, but do not see further features to clear cache besides what is on the performance page.
6) For heck of it, I cleared the cache on all test browsers (firefox and explorer) and reloaded pages.
7) Tried different administrator themes.
8) Another clue maybe -- In my status report everything is green except HTTP request status, but this is because I am using a preview dns since the site is not live. But I don't see how that would affect a java issue.
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5) hover over the favicon
clearing all cache tables in phpmyadmin or like tool on your server can also be used.
checkmark all tables with cache , cache_ or _cache and choose empty from the dropdown.
HTTP request status
That sounds worrying!
That may well be the source of your problem, what modules ar eyou using?
More attempts
1) Thanks VM, sorry for ignorance, that was easy. Tried that no luck
2) ludo1960: this is a clean install of the drupal core (actually for a third time - I thought it might be a bad install for the first 2 times). No modules are running, except I added Admin_menu and devel.module as VM suggested.
OK
Before you installed Drupal could you get the default apache home page served up?
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check permissions on the misc folder, what are they ?
do you have the jquery_update.module installed?
permissions
if that the same as attributes -- they are read/write/execute.
I don't have jquery_update.module installed...but I did just download it and enable it.
Problem Resolved
Thank you to everyone who help diagnose this problem. It was an issue with how drupal was interacting with the go Daddy preview DNS system. Once the site was taken out of the hands of Go Daddy's DNS Preview, the drupal java scripts starting working again.