So I am having a problem with setting up and accessing the content for a local installation of a Dev Desktop 2 site. At this point I have exhausted my knowledge and feel that this is a simple solution I am not seeing. Here is the situation.
A prod site on has a complete Drupal 7 installation on root publichtml at /example (folder name) with the site files inside the default site folder. I clone my local Drupal codebase and import a sql dump file.
The site is accessible at localhost:8083 but no images load. Accessing content gets me 404 errors. All links are going to localhost:8083/example/somerandom.html with 'example' always added into the url. If I take out the 'example' admin,content,etc. url are accessible.
I have tried setting rewritebase / and rewritebase /example
I have messed with my vhosts and changed the baseurl in settings.php also in the settings.php for the Acquia folder that is created alongside.
I have gone as far as exporting the database and trying an old search and replace for the urls. I can sign into the site, but am frequently redirected to the prod site.
I have tried some rewrite conditions to append /example onto the url structure, but nothing.
I am at a loss and any help is appreciated. I can provide more info if needed.
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.htaccess missing?
I've seen copies of sites that don't include "hidden" files that start with a period.
Is there an .htaccess in the document root? If not, I'd suggest starting with one from a fresh download unless there are customization on your site.
Settings.php Base URL
In your settings.php file have your tried un-commenting and changing $base_url to the correct settings for your localhost machine?
I copied a Drupal 6 site to my Macbook running Apache and I had the issue where my images wouldn't display. I had a prod Drupal 6 installed on a web server at root public_html /foldername and after I copied the site to my local machine I changed $base_url in settings.php to http://localhost/foldername and then my images loaded.
Hope this helps.