Hello Everyone

I am new to drupal, but with a bit of searching around and reading all the documentation I managed to install without any problems.

However now that I have Drupal installed if I click on 'Administer' I get taken the admin area of my server not of Drupal! So I cannot add any new modules.

Why is this happening?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Best Regards

Matt

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crookednumber’s picture

It sounds like your request to get to /admin is being handled further upstream by the server (a problem which is likely to cause even more problems until you switch to a more drupal-friendly situation).

Can you talk more about your host, your server set up, etc.?

mdavies66’s picture

I am hosted by United Hosting. Who have said that I can use Drupal with their server. So I have shared hosting with them, but I do have mod_rewrite access, php.ini access, etc.

Does that help you at all?

clivesj’s picture

If you put your mouse-pointer on the administer-link (without pressing it), what url is displayed in the statusline (left-bottom) of your browser?

mdavies66’s picture

The URL is myurl/admin

Is it possible to change the Drupal admin so that the URL could be myurl/adminpanel?

Or should I ask my host to change their admin panel (I can imagine the answer here!)

I have thought however that maybe hosting the site in a sub folder might get around the problem. Would the url then be: myurl/subfolder/admin?

What do you think? Thanks for your help!

gcassie’s picture

Can you get to example.com/?q=admin perhaps?

mdavies66’s picture

I tried your example to login to the site and it worked a treat!

Then I just turned off clean URLs; not something I need. And it is working fine!

Thank you all for your help!!

nflowers1228’s picture

This worked for me as well. I'm removing the clean urls :-)