After 5+ years of happily running our site on Drupal (ok, there were some challenges along the way), our site was repeatedly hacked earlier this year, somehow leaving the database completely empty. We had about 50,000 posts, and over 4GB of data in the database. We did have some backups, but we were not immediately able to restore the backups so another volunteer restarted the site with a fresh Drupal 6 install (the site was on 5.16).
However, it's just not the same losing 5 years of posts, so I have been trying to restore the old data to a test site, and then maybe we can upgrade and get the site going again. After painstakingly splitting the db backup into chunks, deleting unnecessary data like accesslogs and watchdog, and multiple database restore attempts, I think we finally have a database that is a pretty good facsimile of what we had before the hacks.
Drupal 5.16 can now connect to the database and starts to load the home page, but then stops and displays "Page not found" on a nice white page. It loads all the CSS files and javascript, but no content.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to troubleshoot this and get closer to a live site? I'm assuming it's still missing something that it needs from the database, but I don't know what. I'm using Firebug 1.6, but that hasn't given me any clues and I'm a novice at this sort of troubleshooting.