Recently I’ve “converted” to a MacBook Pro for all my development and design work. I was working on a Drupal 6.7 installation and I tried to move it to a Windows server. The site seemed to work OK but all the Admin pages were unresponsive and finally returned a blank page. My logs said “HTTP 200 OK”, so I scratched my head and started Googling. I found a website giving the following solution:

UPDATE system s SET s.status=0, s.throttle=0, s.bootstrap=0
WHERE filename = 'modules/update/update.module'

The statement above disables the update checks. This turned out to be the solution to the problem, because the Windows server I was installing on did not have Internet access! Good one to check before you start…