By d.deman on

I was moving my site from a subdirectory to the main directory. I had my site working fine in the subdirectory...clean urls and everything...but when I decided to move it to the main directory everything went wrong. I changed the $base_url in the setting.php. But my urls didn't work.....so I turned off clean urls but now I can't turn it back on...the site works ok but when I try to click the "Run the clean URL test" button my browser can't find the page. Then I found out that I didn't have a .htaccess file and so I put that back.....but nothing changed. My server does support clean urls since it worked before and I didn't have to change anything on the server I just clicked the "Run the clean URL test" button and it worked.

I am on a public server so I can't change the settings or anything....
Please help I can't figuere out what I have to change.

Thanx,
Danielle

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Comments

heikon’s picture

heikon commented

Have you changed your Drupal's .htaccess file?
(I mean edited it..)

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mdixoncm commented

If you have checked all the obvious stuff - .htaccess file in the right place, the name is correct (sometimes the initial . can be dropped by FTP clients etc) then try changing

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

to 

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

It should be near the end about the second to last line or so ...

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d.deman commented

I did change it and now I tried to change it back...but it still doens't work...maybe I did something wrong

my htaccess file:

#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
<FilesMatch "(\.(engine|inc|install|module|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)|code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root)$">
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# PHP 4, Apache 1
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# PHP 4, Apache 2
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www.
  # you can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one option:
  #
  # If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and uncomment the following:
  # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  # RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
  #
  # If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. , adapt and uncomment the following:
  # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
  # RewriteRule .* http://example.com/ [L,R=301]


  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  #RewriteBase /drupal

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.73 2006/04/14 09:08:26 killes Exp $

I changed what you said....still the same

d.deman’s picture

d.deman commented

I just had to delete my temporary internet files and it worked....thanx so much I would have never figuered out on my own that it was just a slash I neaded to change.

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mdixoncm commented

No worries, I only know myself cos it happened on one of our sites not too long ago :) - nearly turned my hair grey trying to work out what was going on ...

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