By rgladwell on

I do not seem to be able to enable Clean URLs with Drupal 4.6.2 on the root of my FC4 Apache 2.0.54 configuration html directory. I've double-checked that mod_rewrite is properly installed but every time I enable it in admin/settings I get the following error message:

It appears your host is not configured correctly for Clean URLs. Please check for ModRewrite support with your administrator.

Any ideas what might be causing this? Is this a bug in drupal?

I've attempted to alter my settings in the .htaccess file as per these threads, but nothing seems to work:

ModRewrite check doesn't work
HELP !! How to make clean url work on Apache 2 ??

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jDrupafan’s picture

jDrupafan commented

I had a problem and I eventually got it to work. I added this at the top of the

RewriteBase /

Maybe that will help

rgladwell’s picture

rgladwell commented

Sorry, what did you add?

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sepeck commented

second hit
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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rgladwell’s picture

rgladwell commented

I have to admit, I'm not sure how that helps me: I'm using the default .htaccess with Rewrite code already included in that and that documentation page is for Apache 1.3 (I mentioned, I'm running Apache 2.0).

I still have no idea how to get this working on why the mod_rewrites aren't working. Examining my error_log I can see the following error message:

[Mon Aug 15 08:57:50 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/system, referer: http://localhost/?q=admin/settings
[Mon Aug 15 09:00:25 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/system, referer: http://localhost/?q=admin/settings
Emiliano’s picture

Emiliano commented

Hi,
I'm using Suse, but maybe it's the same situation:

Take a look at: http://drupal.org/node/10840

Cheers,

Emiliano
http://www.novayork.com

rgladwell’s picture

rgladwell commented

Hi Emiliano,

Thanks for you suggestion. I did try that, but I couldn't figure out which files was "/etc/sysconfig/apache2" on my system: I'm running Fedora 4.

Little_John’s picture

Little_John commented

I'm running Apache 1.3.29 and I have mod_rewrite installed but Drupal does not see it.

Here is what I have in httpd.conf:

==================
RewriteEngine On

# RewriteRule ^/$ /main/ [R,L]

{ The above works. It converts requests to http://example.com/ to http://example.com/main/ . For clean URL testing, I have this line removed. }

<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/main">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
==================

Here is what I have in /var/www/htdocs/main/.htaccess:

==================
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /main
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /main/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
==================

Anyone?

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Peter

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revival commented

Yes, dreadful mess, all this .htaccess stuff, isn't it. Drives you mad.

Anyway, what helped for me was to chown (change ownership) of the .htaccess file

from

revival:user (my name) to
wwwrun:www (so the server can see it)

All works fine now, after an hour of hitting the computer...

Hope this helps.

R