Magento migration error

Question

domain Magento setup on a shared hosting account and have recently taken the dive in to a dedicated server environment.

We've copied the files across as they were on the old server but we're getting a 500 error.

On further investigation its:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getOptions() on a non-object in /app/Mage.php on line 298 

(have removed full actual path from this error for security)

Has anyone come across this problem before and if so how did you solve it?

Answer 1

Here are some solutions in the Magento Forum.

Magento

• Have you write permission on /var/ and all other folders that need write permissions?
• PHP Safemode off?
• Cache clear?