Trying to get files from the old site So I am currently trying to access our old website which was set up using Drupal. I re-downloaded all of the databases as well as the site files and set it up on a localhost.

The problem I am having is the only page shown is basically a white version of the old site with just the text of what was on it (without any of the CSS styles). When I try to click on a page it directs me to an "Access denied* page, unless I use the search box which just redirects me to a white page. 

Does anyone know why I cannot get this site to work? I am just trying to access the articles that were published (which are located in the databases).

(I am running this on a local host version thru MAMP)

This is how the site appears.
Assuming your site is a Drupal 7 site 


Make sure you have .htaccess in your project root. You can get it here - this should fix the access denied errors
If you have drush, run: drush cc all - this should fix the missing CSS (Drupal doesn't really serve pages directly, it makes cached versions of them. I'd say you caches are empty to they need to be rebuilt.


(If you aren't able to clear / rebuild the cache with drush, please try some of the alternative steps outlined here)