By deejross on

I have two drupal installations on a server in different folders to host two different blogs. The first is in /blog and works perfectly with Clean URLs, but the second installation is in /ross/blog and takes me to a 404 page when I click the test clean url link. Is there a way to fix this, or am I stuck with ugly urls on the second blog?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Roborobotus’s picture

Roborobotus commented

Have you set RewriteEngine on and set up proper RewriteBase in your .htacces file in /ross/blog?

deejross’s picture

deejross commented

Well, I really don't know what the .htaccess file should contain in the /ross/blog folder. I suck at regex.

Roborobotus’s picture

Roborobotus commented

I'm new to Apache and PHP stuff so I can be wrong but it's worth a try ;) If your site is under:

www_root/ross/blog

try editing your .htaccess file (make a backup first!!!):


RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~ross/blog

Worked for me.

hellig_usvart’s picture

hellig_usvart commented

maybe you need to adjust $base_url in the sites/default/settings.php file. (plus/minus line 115)

e.g. $base_url = 'http://www.domain.com/ross/blog'; // NO trailing slash!

deejross’s picture

deejross commented

I just tried that and it didn't seem to affect anything. I also, RewriteEngine is On and I uncommented RewriteBase and set it to /ross/blog, but still getting a 404 error.

Roborobotus’s picture

Roborobotus commented

Try changing

RewriteBase /ross/blog

to

RewriteBase /~ross/blog

deejross’s picture

deejross commented

I read the 404 error a bit more carefully and noticed it was looking in the wrong place. Even though the site is in /ross/blog, the actual domain name that I'm using points to /ross, so by changing the RewriteBase to simply, /blog, Clean URLs now works! Thanks to both of you for your help...and your response time!

hellig_usvart’s picture

hellig_usvart commented

nice... it's always good if things work =)