The requested URL was not found on this server (Magento)

Question

I am using Magento ver 7. I have changed the server of my website with the same URL.

So, I export the database from old server and Imported the same database to new server. Apart from this I have also uploaded all the files to the new server.

I have also changed the database credentials in the /public_html/app/etc/local.xml file.

But now when I am open the URL, it shows an error that "Not Found, The requested URL /index.php/ was not found on this server."

I don't know why this is happening.

Answer 1

It works for me.

turn off url rewriting from magento admin configuration>web> Search Engines Optimization > Use Web Server Rewrites > No

RewriteEngine  comment this line in In your .htaccess in the root of your installation

Answer 2

I tried many solutions to resolve this issue.

One thing I did was I removed the local.xml file from the app/etc directory and reinstalled Magento. While reinstalling, in the third step I checked the two check boxes. One is skip base url and the other for url rewrites.

Then it worked like charm.

Answer 3

I also got this problem when I was restoring a backup of the magento folder, The problem was that I copied the files with the wrong command:

cp -R /something/folder/* /folder

This command does recursive copying of all folder but ommits the files which start with ".", therefore the files which make a redirection like ".htaccess" where not copied.

Instead use:

cp -R /something/folder /folder