cannot access drupal admin site

Question

Hello I am in the process of moving my drupal site to a new IIS server. I had it running perfectly on one server. I disabled all non-core modules, turned off clean urls, put the site in maintenance mode and moved the files and database to my new server. I am able to bring the new site up fine. I can view the main page as well as other content. I can even create new content. However, whenever I try to access the admin page, I am getting a 500 error on the server. I am not getting anything in the server logs to indicate what the problem might be. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Answer 1

There could be many reasons why you cannot access the administrative pages, including the fact the database tables have not been correctly moved.
Check the content of the table users, and verify the user account for the "super user" (the one with user ID equal to 1) has still the user ID equal to 1. That is a particular user that has automatically any permission; if the user ID is not 1 anymore, then the account becomes a normal user account, and it needs to be expressly allowed to do anything.

Answer 2

Is the menu router menu system not rebuilt correctly?

Try getting to the Modules page, Menu page, or run cron.

Answer 3

you don't need to disable clean urls, this is how your enable them in IIS: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/505/install-drupal-on-iis/

could be something to do with clean urls, i also had this problem when recently removing my website to IIS, clean url's fixed this issue!