drupal reinstalled locally, URLs such as "admin" get page not found

Question

I've just downloaded my drupal site.

I can view the home page and the content seems to be read from the db. However i can't get to

http://localhost:81/admin or http://localhost:81/aboutus

I have enabled "mod_rewrite"

i can view content such as "?q=node/266"

I've setup virtual host

ServerName localhost DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/mySite/"

Answer 1

Try going to http://localhost:81/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls and see if Clean URLs is enabled or disabled. If disabled, try enabling, and if you can't, then chances are you'll have to edit your .htaccess and uncomment the

# RewriteBase /

...line or the...

# RewriteBase /drupal

line (changing the last one from /drupal to /mySite).

If you're still having trouble, try going through the handbook guide to Clean URLs.

Answer 2

Had a similar issue recently.. Check your 'variables' table in the database for any references to the server path, chances are you'll have to update them to reflect the new path ( for example from /home/mySite/ to C:/wamp/www/mySite/ ).

Also worth trying: truncating all the cache tables and can you get to the login prompt via http://localhost/mySite/user/login ?

Answer 3

It's your apache config. I run into this problem all the time on fresh apache installs. If you open your apache.conf or virtual host conf file you'll need to change AllowOverrides in your < Directory > from none to all for example.

<Directory />
Options Includes
AllowOverride All
</Directory>