Help! Broke Site When Changing Install Directory Name

By jonnyz on 3 Apr 2007 at 20:04 UTC

Hi,

I read a security-related post that recommended changing the installation directory from "drupal" to something more cryptic as a way of preventing hackers.

I had three multi-sites working within the drupal directory and then I changed the name of the directory to something cryptic like "kasehfksdehf".

After changing the three subdomains to point at the new directory, I am experiencing the following:
1) The home pages show up just fine and I appear to be logged in as i see all my admin tabs and the link to log out.
2) One of the sites that was set up for IP banning is still banning from outside IP's so I have to assume that the site is running and connecting to the DB.
3) When I click on any of the links though (Administer in this case), I get an error page that says,

"404 Not Found

The requested URL /admin does not exist."

If I click on any of the other links, I get the same error with corresponding path/page in the message depending on what i clicked on.

I have cleared all the cache tables in the DB.

Is there a setting somewhere that tells drupal what the installation directory is named?

Help!

Thanks!

Comments

Possibly $base_url (or

dchakrab commented 3 April 2007 at 20:12

Possibly $base_url (or something similar...don't remember the exact variable name) in the settings.php file.

Hope that helps...do post back and let us know how it's going.

Dave.

Update - Issuse Seems to Deal With Clean URL's

jonnyz commented 3 April 2007 at 20:12

I just tried changing the /admin to ?q=admin and it seemed to get me to the admin area. But I still experience the same issue when I click on any of the other links. I hope this helps!

You will need to edit your

jimmygoon commented 3 April 2007 at 20:18

You will need to edit your .htaccess file to reflect the changes you have made to your directory structure.

Which .htaccess and how?

jonnyz commented 3 April 2007 at 20:22

Thanks Jimmy.

Which .htaccess, the ones in the sub-sites directories or in the main install directory?

What edits would you suggest?

Update 2 - Clean URL's is Part of the Problem

jonnyz commented 3 April 2007 at 20:20

SO I finally managed to navigate to the admin area to turn the clean URL's off by using the non-clean URL for this area. After that, I was able to navigate the site.

However, I definitely want to enable clean url's and now, when I run the clean url test, I get a similar message to the above:

"404 Not Found
The requested URL /admin/settings/clean-urls does not exist."

So it does not let me enable clean url's again. Is there a way of updating the site to let it now that i changed th name of the install directory?

Thanks!

PS: Thanks for your message above Dave. I did try commenting out the base url but it did not help. I do not think it deals with that because my base url did not change, only the name of the master drupal install directory.

Fixed!

jonnyz commented 3 April 2007 at 20:36

At some point i'd changed the name of my .htaccess file to .htaccess_old. After changing it back to it's real name everything was hunky dory. Thanks for you guys who stepped in so quickly!!!