404s on all pages except homepage

Question

I have copied a Drupal installation onto my local machine and I am now running into an issue where only the homepage will load and all other links return a 404.

Clean URLS are enabled but even attempting to manually type the URL like:

?q=admin/module

fails...

I have tried the following:

• Setting AllowOverride to All
• including the mod_rewrite module
• including the usr_module
• setting the baseURL in settings.php

None have yet appeared to have any effect.

Can anybody suggest anything else to try?

Answer 1

Check that you have the .htaccess file present in your Drupal root folder.

Answer 2

This happened to me once, I copied an entire site folder and clean urls didn't work. I'd copied my files by just selecting all the files in a folder, which doesn't select hidden files, so I was missing my .htaccess file in the drupal root folder.

Answer 3

There's some documentation on clean URLs here -- http://drupal.org/getting-started/clean-urls

At a glance, it looks like you've checked everything in the "Fixing Problems" section except RewriteBase.

Answer 4

This problem could also be caused by editing your Apache config file and changing the default value of DocumentRoot "/var/www/html". Try keeping it at the default even if your site's files are not located in /var/www/html.

Answer 5

If you are using IIS check your web.config file and follow this guide. Drupal clearn URL guide