Masking the Drupal Subdirectory

Hi,

I've got a problem, but I'm really unsure if it's my fault (probable), or a problem with Drupal (less probable).

My site has always masked the drupal subdirectory, so www.mysite.com/drupal/whatever.html looks like www.mysite.com/whatever.html. I upgraded to Drupal 5.2 yesterday, and this function seems to have stopped working. All links and content are now being displayed as www.mysite.com/drupal/whatever.html.

Now, when I first installed Drupal, I remember changing my my root/.htaccess file to read:

# Taken from http://drupal.org/node/135206
#
RewriteEngine on
#
# stuff to let through (ignore)
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder1/" [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder2/"
RewriteRule (.*) drupal/$1 [L]

This hasn't changed. I also edited and uncommented the following line in my sites/default/settings.php file:

$base_url = 'http://www.mysite.com/drupal'; // NO trailing slash!

Is there something else that I've forgotten to do?

I remember struggling to get it to work when I launched my live site back in March, but I neglected to document my steps. What a DONUT!

So, apart from the steps I've done, is there something else I should do to mask the drupal sub-directory? Or is there possibly a problem with my new Drupal install?

I've been looking through handbooks, but can't find anything else, Drupal.org's 'search' seems to be throttled, so I'm a bit stuck...

Any help or pointers much appreciated! :)

- Jim

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Drupal 5.2
Apache 2.0.52
PHP 4.4.2
MySQL 4.1.21
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