Moved Drupal 7 site to a different server, can't log in

Question

I recently moved my Drupal 7 site to a new hosting server and I\'m stuck at the login page. As soon as I try and log in, I get directed back to the same page, but the URL change

Answer 1

seddonym's comment about mod_rewrite led me to a slightly different solution. I was having the same problem but was able to solve it by copying the file rewrite.load from /etc/apache2/mods-available to /etc/apache2/mods-enabled.

I think the files in mods-enabled are some sort of link files (I am novice at linux still) but copying the files worked just fine. Maybe someone will come along and tell us the proper way to do this.