Drupal core update has messed up entire site

By 58splitty on 11 May 2016 at 16:00 UTC

Hi everyone,

Im at a loss as what to do now. I have updated from drupal 7.3 something to 7.43. I replaced everything apart from the sites folder. It all went fine and the install seemed good. Now none of the links on my site work and i get an error URL NOT FOUND! I have no admin bar and nice menus seems to have disappeared. I cant access anything!

Is this clean urls amoungst other things?

What do i need to do to repair the entire site.

Many thanks

Karl

Comments

Go through the error logs and

Jaypan commented 11 May 2016 at 16:05

Go through the error logs and find the problems, then google them one at a time.

Also, if you went directly from 7.30 to 7.43, that's asking for troubles. Better to upgrade in smaller steps. If you've done that, you should restore a backup of 7.30, then move forward slowly from there.

Im just getting error 404 on

58splitty commented 11 May 2016 at 16:36

Im just getting error 404 on every link. I have reinstalled version 7.32 and the problem is the same. I have no admin so i cant do anything at all?

Look in your PHP and Apache

Jaypan commented 11 May 2016 at 17:34

Look in your PHP and Apache error logs. If you have Drush installed, you can call drush ws to access the watchdog.

I dont use drush and fully

58splitty commented 11 May 2016 at 17:53

I dont use drush and fully understand php Apache logs if im honest

Logs Among Other Check

philip_stier commented 11 May 2016 at 16:44

Yes, you can access the logs for the website, if you have that core module enabled in the first place, however there are other things to keep in mind:

Have you updated the database for the website? You can do this simply by going to www.your-url.com/update.php
As long as you are not upgrading from 6.x to 7.x, you shouldn't have a problem upgrading. The only reason a 7.3 to 7.43 update may go wrong is if the Drupal core modules were altered, which is definitely recommended not to do.
Did you also update any of the modules in your modules list along with updating your core? Any module in your module list that may have been custom altered will revert back to default by updating the module. It is recommended that any custom module alterations be referenced in your theme structure, so as those alterations will not be changed when updating modules.

Have you copied the database and website files before updating? Always common practice to do so so that you may revert back if necessary. A module to help with this is the Backup And Migrate module https://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate.

It was after the update.php

58splitty commented 11 May 2016 at 17:17

It was after the update.php it all went wrong. No module changes were made either. I have many back up and migrate files, I dont think this is the problem, I just cant get into anything as all the link and admin bar have gone?

Heres what Im getting, so

58splitty commented 11 May 2016 at 17:57

Heres what Im getting, so most of my modules are working, I just dont have admin menu at the top and the links fail

www.radialdesign.co.uk/slh.png

Admin Bar Module

philip_stier commented 11 May 2016 at 22:56

Are you using the Administration Menu module for the Drupal toolbar? There are multiple settings for this module that assist with browser-side cacheing and until I found out these settings, sometimes the toolbar would not display for me either.

Without the toolbar, you can still navigate to admin pages via the address bar (ex. .../admin/modules), are you still able to do this, or is the entire admin area inaccessible?