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How todo I move a Drupal 5 site to another server?

Migration issues How to move a Drupal 5 site to another server?

I'm having troubles migrating a Drupal 5 site. Basically, I don't have direct access to the original site, but I've been given the Drupal source files and a dump of the database. 

When I upload the database to my local server and alter the settings file to connect to the database I can access the first page, but nothing else, when (eg: nothing within the admin area). When I click on any other link I get a generic HTML file with just one string of text in it. I can't even tell how the file is being generated, it's the oddest thing. 

I'm really thrown off because I move Drupal 6 sites all the time, and although I do run into all sorts of problems related to file paths, a few search/replace queries in the database seem to fix most of those problems, so

So I'm wondering if there is something specific to Drupal 5 I should be doingif there is something specific to Drupal 5 that I should be doing (but that I'm not aware of, or perhaps,). Perhaps the dbdatabase is corrupt.?

I'm at a loss here!

Migration issues

I'm having troubles migrating a Drupal 5 site. Basically, I don't have direct access to the original site, but I've been given the Drupal source files and a dump of the database. When I upload the database to my local server and alter the settings file to connect to the database I can access the first page, but nothing else, when I click on any other link I get a generic HTML file with just one string of text in it. I can't even tell how the file is being generated, it's the oddest thing. I'm really thrown off because I move Drupal 6 sites all the time, and although I do run into all sorts of problems related to file paths, a few search/replace queries in the database seem to fix most of those problems, so I'm wondering if there is something specific to Drupal 5 I should be doing that I'm not aware of, or perhaps, the db is corrupt. I'm at a loss here!

How to move a Drupal 5 site to another server?

I'm having troubles migrating a Drupal 5 site. I don't have direct access to the original site, but I've been given the Drupal source files and a dump of the database. 

When I upload the database to my local server and alter the settings file to connect to the database I can access the first page, but nothing else (eg: nothing within the admin area). When I click on any other link I get a generic HTML file with just one string of text in it. I can't even tell how the file is being generated, it's the oddest thing. 

I'm really thrown off because I move Drupal 6 sites all the time, and although I do run into all sorts of problems related to file paths, a few search/replace queries in the database seem to fix most of those problems

So I'm wondering if there is something specific to Drupal 5 that I should be doing (but that I'm not aware of). Perhaps the database is corrupt?

I'm at a loss here!

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