By juicestain on

Anyone out there using site5 with Clean URLS? It wouldn't work out of the box and the handbook instructions look like greek to me. Any tips on how I can pull it off through their cPanel? I'm running Mac OSX too and I'm not very familiar with running Terminal either...

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patrickharris’s picture

patrickharris commented

Clean URLs shouldn't be a problem at Site5 ... check that you have uploaded .htaccess correctly!

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vm commented

Agreed. I too am using site5 hosting and all i did was run the test, and enable clean urls. ensure you click the test link otherwise the radio selections wont enable.

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dsamuel commented

I have it working on my production server, but not on my test PC. I decided not to worry about it on my test PC, but if anyone knows how to get a windows box to run clean URLs, that would be nice to know!

I did have problems getting clean URLs to work on my production server however, and that was entirely due to my own confusion.

You can read about how to enable clean URLs in Drupal on my blog (I wrote about my confusion, and how I became un-confused) - hope that helps.

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Chill35 commented

On your Windows machine, have you set AllowOverride to All in the Apache config file ?

AllowOverride All

More information here : http://drupal.org/node/15365

It's already a long time ago for me, but that's what solved it for me I think : this Apache configuration setting.

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sammons commented

http://drupal.org/node/121834

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stoob commented

I use Site5. I installed Drupal by FTP'ing the .tar.gz archive to my document root. Then I logged in with the control panel through Site5's "backstage". Using the File Manager utility I un-archived the Drupal archive into the document root. For some reason, the .htaccess file did not unpack properly. So my Drupal site was running without an .htaccess file at all. This made Clean URLs impossible. Then I re-uploaded the .htaccess file via FTP specifically to the document root and now Clean URL test worked and I enabled it.

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sstacks commented

This is helpful for enabling clean URLs in test / preview sites on Site5 before the domain name is being used:

# temporarily set the base directory
# before domain is working
RewriteBase /~username

From http://www.canarypromo.com/birdfeed/clean-urls-site5-domain-active