With a fresh Drupal 6 install, the automated Javascript test for Clean URLs fails, and won't let me enable Clean URLs. I then disabled Javascript to expose the 'Run the Clean URLs test' link. When I clicked the link, the test was successfully passed, and allowed me to enable Clean URLs.

This indicates some kind of inconsistency between the automatically and manually triggered tests.

This bug has been experienced by others: http://drupal.org/node/259334

I am using Firefox 3.0 on Linux.

The site is running on the following stack:

Linux
Apache 1.3.39
PHP 5.2.3
MySQL 4.1.22
Drupal 6.3

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misterlawrence’s picture

misterlawrence commented

I am on 6.4, and when I have js enabled, I get the same message above. When I disable js, I am able to run the clean-urls test, which oddly brings me back to my site's homepage.

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misterlawrence commented

For what it's worth, all my clean url problems were solved by deleting an errant "Admin" folder in my root directory (a remnant of some old installation of something or other, but no longer needed).

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colorado commented

Whoa! Deleting an errant "admin" folder in my root directory also solved both of the above problems for me :-/

Thank you so much misterlawrence!

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dave reid
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Primary language English
Location Nebraska USA
commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The clean urls test uses an url like "http://yoursite/admin/clean-url-test" and so if you have an "admin" folder in your drupal install, that path will not be handled by Drupal. Going to mark this as 'by design'

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brianV commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Closed (fixed)

Just setting this bug as closed.

Just FYI, in my case, there was no old folders - was a clean install on a domain I had just set up.

However, I never experienced this problem again after 6.3, so I assume it got fixed somewhere along the line.