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

Sometimes problems relating to logging in after a site migration can be because mod_rewrite was enabled on the first machine but not the second. A simple way to test this is to use the ?q= URL format (http://site.localhost?q=user) and see if you can log in like that. If that works then you can either disable clean urls from within the Drupal interface, or enable mod rewrite in Apache.