By thatnewguy on

I installed drupal 6.2 today in order to check out views 2 and other modules, but after completing the install drupal informed me that clean urls were not supported with the message:

"Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. The handbook page on Clean URLs has additional troubleshooting information."

I don't understand whatsoever why that is because It runs on drupal 5 perfectly fine and I'm using the web developer community package version 2.00 for the local testsite. I checked the handbook and I do have a .htaccess file in there and I'm not sure how the other trouble shooting options would be the problem as it works on drupal 5.

Suggestions?

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andyshack’s picture

andyshack commented

I have found the same "problem" with my webserver.

I am running solaris coolstack and plan to look into it shortly.

If you are still stuck let me know as I am confident this may easily be solved.

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nerassim commented

Have you found any solution?
I have the same problem with my coolstack/Solaris/Drupal7.10 :(
I've setup VirtualHost, uncomment RewriteBase, setup $base_url etc (everything that is in documentation), and nothing helps.

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Jeff Burnz commented

Quick question - what is the "web developer community package version 2.00"?

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jboeger commented

I get this:

This option makes Drupal emit "clean" URLs (i.e. without ?q= in the URL).
Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. The handbook page on Clean URLs has additional troubleshooting information.

All Drupal 5.x sites on this server are running w/ clean URLs. Apache allows.

Any ideas out there?

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hbreardon commented

Did you ever get clean URLs working in drupal 6? I have the same problem - it worked fine in 5.7 but not in 6.6.

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logicalpat commented

Same here. I see a lot of people asking this question but no solutions other than "reinstall Drupal" which is a pretty bad one.

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davemybes commented

I started having this exact problem, but I quickly discovered that no matter what version of Drupal (5.x or 6.x) I tried to install, clean URLs did not work. However, all previous installs worked OK.

In my case, I had activated the vhost_alias module to dynamically create vhosts for each new site I setup on my local server. Doing things this way should negate the need to create a virtualhost file/entry for each new site. However, it seems to have messed up the mod_rewrite detection somehow. There are two options for fixing this:

1. Creating a Virtualhost entry for the new site.

2a. Edit the default Virtualhost (in apache2 this is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default) and set AllOverride to All (instead of None)
2b. In the Drupal install folder, edit .htaccess and uncomment RewriteBase /

I realize that most people won't install vhost_alias, but I thought I'd mention it here, just in case.
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wb54321 commented

I have drupal 6.9 on Godaddy; I struggled with the clean urls issue for hours, modifying the .htaccess file a number of times. Although I had tried uncommenting RewriteBase / at least once, I still got the "not configured" message when I re-ran the test. Finally have it working; suspect it may have been enabling the Batch module during my tinkering. I now have Clean URLS enabled. Whew!
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