Drupal migration - now only front page works

I just migrated a Drupal site from a ISP to a dedicated Linux CentOS server.

MySQL Database is configured and generates front page without error.

Problem is that only the home page work开发者_StackOverflows. All other pages show "404 Page Not Found Error".

So mysite.com/ works but mySite.com/node/1 does not work.

I checked some obvious places:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is enabled in httpd.conf

Any ideas?

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I've had this happen before. It could be because your new Linux Centos OS server isn't configured for clean URLs yet.

Try to access the site as follows. To login: http://example.com/?q=user/login

Login as admin and submit the form. You'll get access denied 404 page again after submission but still login.

Now manually type and go to http://example.com/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls

On this page turn off clean-urls and save and you should be able to access your site normally on the new server. Just configure it for clean-urls and then turn it back on when it's ready.

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thanks Kevin,

mysite.com/?q=node/1? gives me a 404.

.htaccess was indeed missing. I copied in a generic version from a vanilla install into root directory (same directory as index.html) and this does not help.

(I don't have access to old site. We did not modify .htaccess - so I assume vanilla copy will do)

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Another possibility: If it's a new server, make sure that Apache has mod_rewrite installed. Happened to me.

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If you have drupal 7 or higher use this for the clean-url config page:

mysite.com/?q=admin/config/search/clean-urls

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Check to see that the .htaccess file made it through the migration. Usually the culprit here. Can you get to mysite.com/?q=node/1?