No layout found when accessing /sitecore. I am trying to access it for the first time

Question

No layout found when accessing mylocalwebsite.local/sitecore. I am trying to run it for the first time, restored DBs, granted permission to AppPool etc.

I get a redirect to 404 and the url changes to:

/no-layout?item=%2fsitecore&layout=%7b00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%7d&device=Default 
no layout

Please note, I am on Sitecore 6.5

Answer 1

Make sure you have the correct Sitecore, Sitecore modules and sitecore_files folders. In my case the total size of combined folders was only 11MB, so I copied the original folders from a new Sitecore 6.5 (12009) instance, which combined was > 140MB in size