By zbricoleur on

OK, I want Clean URLs to go away for a while.
I disabled it at admin/settings/clean-urls.
I checked the variable in {variable}, and it's set to 0.
AND I deleted from {cache}.
BUT, clean URLs are still resolving.
What gives?

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hagrin commented

Did you also install the pathauto module? Did you make any changes to your .htaccess file? I would look in those two places next although I have never tried turning off Clean URLs before.

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zbricoleur’s picture

zbricoleur commented

"No" to both, unfortunately.

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styro commented

The clean urls setting doesn't have any affect on whether or not they "resolve". The resolving is done by the mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess file which translates an incoming clean url into the unclean url which is the request that Drupal actually processes. Without mod_rewrite Apache would never know that a incoming clean url is supposed to be handled by index.php in the Drupal directory.

What the clean urls setting does is alter the format in which Drupal creates its own links in the HTML within the site.

To stop clean urls resolving, you'd need to disable mod_rewrite or alter the rules.

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zbricoleur commented

Thanks, Anton. We use ISAPI_rewrite, actually, as it's a Windows server, and I thought I had disabled that by removing the httpd.ini files (analogous to .htaccess on *nix) completely, but what you say makes me wonder if the old rules have been cached.

EDIT: I found the problem. We're using ISAPI_rewrite 3.0, which actually parses .htaccess files. Edited the .htaccess file, problem went away.