Moved Drupal 7 site to a different server, can'

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 changes from /user to /user/1, which leads me to believe that I am actually logged in, but I'm not being forwarded to the correct page.

I tried cleaning my cache, emptying the cache tables in the DB but nothing helped.

Any ideas?

EDIT: To make things a bit more clear, I've used the specific server for various other Drupal 7 sites, so I know for a fact that the server configuration is not at fault here.

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.