By dreamleader on

Hi Everybody,

so I wanted clean urls. Went to Configure>Clean URLs and did not get the enable or disable button. Ran the clean URLs test and message told me: Clean URL test failed. check online handbook, etc. So I checked the online handbook and was referred to my .htaccess file. Well my .htaccess file looked fine to me. So that couldn't be it.
I googled some more. Did stuff to my .htaccess file which led me to have a white screen of death. Luckily I had a back up of my site.
So I restored my site from backup.

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dreamleader commented

The answer to this is easy and simple.

Please excuse my simple instructions. I am a semi-newbie too. And I still speak in newbie lingo.

Log into your site. Go to your admin>Configuration>Clean URLs. Then type into the url box in your browser (not server) at the very top:

admin/config/search/clean-urls (copy and paste this if you like into your url search box of your browser). Remember that it is still example.com/admin/config/search/clean-urls. Hit enter or search.

Now you should be able to get the "enable clean urls " button.
This works if you have Apache server and got the "Run Clean URLs test message" and after that got the Failure message.
Try it.
It worked for me, and now I have clean urls.
Good Luck, I hope this helps you too.

P.S. Thank you to mudtraining on http://drupal.org/node/944080 comment #15.

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ramaraju_d commented

Hi, I am using apache server. I followed your simple steps but it dint worked.. I have the same problem with clean-urls. Do you have any other solution ? Thanks

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josephsergio commented

Is there any update on this, not sure what to do?

Also this is all thats in my .htaccess file:

SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006
Options None
Options +FollowSymLinks

Any solution to fix my clean URLs would be great - I tried #1 but going to that link didn't work either

PLEASE HELP

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dreamleader commented

what error message do you get?

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RKS commented

This worked for me.

1) Did you run the test before trying to insert the link?
2) Did you clear your browser cache before trying the link again?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

thought it worked but instead broke DB - back to the drawing board