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Hello all. I'm trying to move my XOOPS site from one web host to another. That in itself turned out to be a nightmare as my site is 5 gigs, but I digress...
Technical support at my new host claims to have transfered all the files from my old host and also imported my database. HOWEVER, they said that the ftp transfer was randomly skipping directories, so anything could be missing. They also said that my old web host used an older version of MySQL and that they had a lot of difficulties importing the database.
I should probably interrupt here and say that I have read both FAQ entries on moving sites.
Anyway, I just moved DNS this morning, and after the update had reached me I tried logging into my site at the new location. The login page comes up fine, and after logging in the main page is completely blank. Opening admin.php gave my my admin pages, but trying to open general preferences to turn on debugging brings up the admin page but the content area is empty except for a small table with empty cells. (The admin page has the menu across the top and side) Looking at the settings for other modules they sort-of work, but all the human readable names have been replaced by their database name/id's, ie the title of Polls now displays "_AM_POLLCONF". I read something in the forums about deleting the cache which I did, and now the mouse rollovers for the menus also display unfriendly names, ie the first item in the system menu is "_MI_SYSTEM_ADMENU1".
Any suggestions? I can't turn on debugging, I've completed the repair on the database as described in the faq, double checked the sites physical path and the database login information, and have run out of ideas. Thank you so much.