By bitshift on

Ive backed up and restored my DB and FTP'd my files to a local folder. Using windows, this never seemed to give me much trouble, but now that im using Ubuntu, things seem to not be playing nice after the restore is done. Ive done this dozens of times on my former workstation (db mackup with mysql admin gui, then ftp down my website files and do restore)

My production website is working fine, all modules current, cache cleared, db updated

So, now after a restore...
- I see the header image and some minor text, but no real content (that would come from the DB)
- Cant login, get to admin or anything else
- Acts as if the DB was restored correctly, but I am doing nothing different than ive done in the past, at least as far as the process goes
- Im using a virtual host in apache, but that is not my problem. I even tried defining $base_url to my virtual host name, but sitll no luck. Never had to do this before though either.

[ update ]
Ok, getting a little further after realizing I had not enabled mod_rewrite (using sudo a2enmod rewrite), but still have a ton of issues with pages, links not working

arrrgh this is frustrating

[ update again ]

Wahoooo! Its working.
Manages to get in with /index.php?q=user so I could at least login
However, still had tons of issues with "page not found", broken links etc
It ended up being issues with file permissions, which Im still sorting out, but I think im almost back in business!

[ update ]
I think Im also running into what seem like PHP 5.3 compatibility issues and Drupal core 6.19

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