Hello,
We had a legacy application running in an old VM that failed on us and I've been tasked with getting it back online temporarily so that we can use it again until we decommission it. The application was developed by an old employee years ago and they were very considerate in providing no documentation at all. What I do know is that the application was developed in Drupal with a MySQL DB back end.
I've built a clean Windows Server 2012 R2 VM and installed XAMPP 5.6.15 on it, only Apache and MariaDB (MySQL) as those are the only two components that I need. I think I've got the DB table structure and data built as it should be. I've opened up firewall ports and am able to hit the htdocs root directory which redirects me to the /dashboard sub-directory without issue. What I am unable to do is hit the sub-directory that contains the application, /sd.
When I go to localhost/sd or IPADDRESS/sd from another machine in both cases I get a 404. When I check the Apache access logs I can clearly see the request come in but that Apache returns a 404. I noticed that when I copied the sub-directory there were existing .htaccess files which I removed (although I suspect I'll have to replace and modify them for the application to work as intended). I've also modified the httpd.conf to alternatively explicitly allow access to the required sub-directory or define it as a virtual site, both to no avail (although I am not able to guarantee that I did these properly).
Please help!
Thanks in advance!