I'm a newbie with almost no php experience but I installed Drupal 6 easily. Configured many things, and finally realized why poorman's chron was invested, so I installed it. An hour later I was informed that my VIEWS module needed updating, and thinking the update was as easy as dumping it in my sites/all/modules folder, I dumped it in. Now my whole site is down. All I get is "Page Not Found - The requested page could not be found."

Based on other posts, I deleted the views folder, and even deleted the views-related tables in phpMyAdmin. Still no response. How do I get the site back up?

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allanx’s picture

PLEASE HELP...

sleepingplanet.com’s picture

did you install from scratch or did you upgrade?
you've posted in the upgrade forum so i'm assumming you have upgraded.
did you download the views module for 5 or 6?

Since you've started deleting tables i think you may have borked it completely and i would advise a complete wipe and rebuild, but i'm not the smartest tool in the box so perhaps someone else knows the fix.

also are you getting a 404 on just the root? www.yourwebsite.com
what page is it trying to get to? their should be an index.php on your server in the public_html folder

if your server is saying it doens't exist, you should ftp in and have a look to see if it's right. if it is their have a look at it's permissions, you should see 644 or 777 or something like that, if it has a 0 in it (like 700) that could well be the issue.

Hapsack’s picture

Hello All,

I just installed the VIEWS module and after enabling it I am now and receiving a "Page not found
The requested page could not be found. " error on my main page, actually all pages.

All I can see is my header and copyright info.

I've deleted the view folder from the Modules folder and am still having the same problem. I've spent a lot of time and my site and this is very worrisome. ANY assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks So Much,
Hapsack

Hapsack’s picture

This is what is on "Line 171":

function views_ui_theme() {
$path = drupal_get_path('module', 'views');
require_once "./$path/includes/admin.inc";

foldesy’s picture

Same situation, anybody solved it?

jahaswel’s picture

updated several modules yesterday now Ill I get is banner, logo, and page not found.

this sucks as I've put a good amount of effort into the site.

vinnysharman’s picture

Anyone? I am getting the same issue

malbrecht’s picture

same here, untared latest "views" because the "calendar module" required it. When trying to access the modules admin I got "The requested page could not be found". This is what I get on EVERY page now.
That means: Right after untaring the views-tarball the complete installation is broken. Drupal 6.2.

Edit: http://drupal.org/node/262892 has helped me. Still I think someone familiar with the views module should have a close look at what is going wrong there.

tekmo’s picture

After installing Views this killed the site I'm working on.

The page posted by malbrecht got the site back up and running. It happened because of a "Fatal Error: Memory Limit" error when activating the Views modules. I upped the memory limit in the php.ini file and now I'm off to see if I can have some success with Views this time around.

Edit: I've upped memory limit all the way up to 80MB in increments ... no success. I'm downgrading the site to 5.7 because it's still early in development. Rather rebuild what I have then risk launching a site that will cause headaches in the future.

malbrecht’s picture

thanks for the update.

It would be REALLY nice if the (somewhat popular) views module could be updated by a developer familiar with it. One of my problems with Drupal before has been that to get a site actually working you NEED a lot of modules/plugins. But many of those will fail somewhere or don't work as expected. Not being a Drupal-Guru I felt lost too often because the site I was building would crash irrecoverable just by activating a module.

So any help to solve this issue would be highly appreciated.

tekmo’s picture

5.7 is much better supported and i have yet to run into any problems with views, cck, etc..

Like its been said elsewhere... the user contrib modules can take a long time to catch up to the Drupal build. And I'm not expert either but I've been making progress.

olskar’s picture

Wow..got this problem too, I almost think the viewsmodule should be removed from the site until this is fixed..

audiomason’s picture

same problem

audiomason’s picture

I was able to get my site back up by removing the views, date, and calendar module folders out of the sites/all/modules/ directory. Then I placed the old views module back into the modules directory, and restored the MySql database from a backup made the previous day. All is well!

What's up with the new views module?!

ketoiloihp’s picture

When you install modules have some misstake with database ( table menu_router)
Fixed by update table menu_router.
Note: Before install new modules you should backup table menu_router.
I hope you can solved it.
Thanks.

alexallotey’s picture

i am now learning drupal and i have this problem of after installing modules, the system gives nothing but "The requested page could not be found. " for every node i try to access. this has happend twice and now am afraid to continue learning drupal because to me this really sucks.
i have really invested alot of time and money into this thing that if this is how it has been and it is ,then i think drupal really sucks.

rawsushi’s picture

One day I got the error - but if I typed /index.php EVERYTHING was fine.... just that that page would never autoload.

SO:
a) I went in to the file found in SITES/DEFAULT - called settings.php
(I had to change its permissions so that I could save the file ... that's a 7 in the linux permissions world)
b) I changed the $update_free_access = FALSE; from FALSE to TRUE and saved
c) I went to the modules (control area at /admin/build/modules and clicked on update.php

The site came back when I was done.

Good luck to you!

ovlaere’s picture

Hello,

i just stumbled upon this topic as i experienced the same thing: i mirrored a site filesystem to my localhost, i exported the database and imported it into my local phpmyadmin, changed some settings.php entries and went to the home page. All i got was page not found messages in the site look and feel (so the site was running, admin pages working, but no nodes, even when they were there in the database!).

I tried various solutions, update.php, running cron, clearing caches, rebuilding the menu, running scripts found on this site that load all nodes and save them back to the database,... nothing worked. Spent hours on that yesterday.

After reading this, i tried several things and found a fix that works time with after time after reproducing the error:

When i migrated the site, i navigate to admin/reports/status. Once that page has loaded once, when i go back to the home page, all page not found errors are gone.

Weird, but an easy solution.

Just wanted you guys to know.
Regards,
Oliver

martysteer’s picture

this worked for me too.

mardrupial’s picture

Thanks for the fix, Oliver.

moset’s picture

Thanks Rawsushi,
this little trick worked for one of my sites!

redesign-1’s picture

All I understand is main rule:
ALWAYS BACKUP DATABASE BEFORE UPDATE
Now I have only "Page not found" message on my Drupal site...

bdtushar’s picture

My all pages are giving this message. I m worried with drupal now. sometimes after running update.php or cron.php it works, sometimes not. I have used these modules
views, cck, filefield, imagefield, imageapi, imagecache, lightbox2

davidcm’s picture

For me it was a memory problem.

Symptom
- while saving a view got drupal memory error
- subsequently couldn't load views ui config page..or access any views..kept getting the dreaded "Page Not Found" error

Fix
- increased memory in php.ini and turned off modules I wasn't using (devel themer, firebug for drupal, etc.)
- disabled and re-enabled views module

Hope this helps

Bagz’s picture

Started getting this error message in the content region on the homepage in Drupal 7, in both a clean install, and a copy from another working site (both scripts and db). After some investigation I found that the error only appears when using IIS 5.
Both XAMPP on Windows and LAMP servers work fine with a replica of the site. My guess is that this may perhaps have something to do with the rewrite functionality for clean URL's not working with Drupal 7.

Moral of the story, stay away from IIS when running Drupal...

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talovision’s picture

Hi there,

I've just installed drupal from scratch, without hitch and when installation had complete (after I'd entered the site name, admin name, email address, etc) the button said something like 'Go to configure site' and I'm met with the drupal 'Page Not Found - The requested page could not be found' error.

The site is www.northcoventrytagb.co.uk

Aaarrrgggh! Any ideas anyone please?

Thanks

Jon

nzcodarnoc’s picture

I just upgraded from D6 to D7 and ran into this.

I had disabled views, but the homepage (in site information) was set to a views page.

I just changed the homepage to the default and then I could get on with the upgrade.