By rperezGBT on

Hello,

i have dupal 6 installed on my ubuntu machina and i am not able of using clean urls...the link that normally appear does not in my case and it seems impossible to make this thing work. I have tried to follow some guides (http://drupal.org/node/15365 for instance) with no success...i am at a dead end now so if some of you can help me i would be very grateful...

Thanks in advance

Rodrigo

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cog.rusty commented

In Drupal 6, there is no link for the clean URL test. The test is performed automatically when you visit the admin/settings/clean-urls page.

There are only the two options there: Disabled and Enabled.
- Does the selection work or are the options grayed out?
- Which option is currently selected?
- Does Drupal use clean URLs in the menu links, and the links don't work? Or do the menu links contain a "?q="?

Since you read http://drupal.org/node/15365 I assume that you have found that:
- mod_rewrite is enabled on your server (you can check that by running phpinfo)
- the use of .htaccess files is enabled on the server (no "AllowOverride None" line in httpd.conf)
- you do have Drupal's .htaccess file in Drupal's main directory.

On some hosts, you also need to have a RewriteBase / line in your .htaccess file.