Avoid Potholes When Deploying Drupal Sites to Media Temple Virtual Private Servers
by Kronda Adair, Web Developer
I recently had occasion to set up a new Drupal site on a dedicated virtual private server on Media Temple (dv 4.0). Everything was going swimmingly until I deployed the site and tried to reach it via the IP address. The result was the install.php page, even though my settings file was uploaded and had the correct settings for the database. To make matters more frustrating, the log files were not located in the standard place (/var/log/httpd/domain.com-error.log) After some searching we* finally found them at /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/ and found that the particular file that contained the database settings was causing a 403 error - access forbidden. Read More…