By rocketboy37 on

Alright,

I tried "image" module and now i'm trying IMCE and I have figured out the problem with getting broken image icon on my pages. It seems some of these imaging modules require the "mod_rewrite" module enabled in Apache2. I have tried many of the solutions out on Goog and no prize. Now I look to the Drupal community to help me enable the "mod_rewrite" module. I'm using the following OS and Drupal version:

Suse Linux Enterprise 10
Apache2
Drupal 6.9
mod_rewrite is installed

I dont know where to go from here the http://drupal.org/node/15365 does not explain very well how to enable this on Suse Linux not to mention the instructions are rather vague in fact once this gets resolved I plan on submitting a change request to the 15365 article.

I'm currently reading this article http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting/2/ and have also been looking in here http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html?page=/documentatio... and here as well http://forum.modrewrite.com/index.php so if anyone could be so kind and put me out of my misery. Please help out a tired Drupal Linux advocate.

Thanks,

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sloebs commented

As you know, enabling mod_rewrite has nothing to do with Drupal, per se. The way to enable an Apache mod differs according to the Linux distro. I do not have specific experience with Suse, but I do with Debian and Redhat distros.

Since nobody has responded yet, I will give you a little less specific help that may or may not solve it for you with Suse.

One common type of Apache2 configuration simply has all of the mods in a directory called 'modules.' This directory on my CentOS box is located at /etc/httpd/modules. You would then find the 'mod_rewrite.so' file in that directory.

Then you would open your Apache2 configuration file. Mine is at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Scroll down to the 'Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support' section and add this line:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Save the file and restart your Apache server.

Some other Apache2 configs have two module directories: one for all available mods and another for those loaded. If you have this type of configuration, then simply create a symlink of the rewrite mod from the available modules directory into the loaded modules directory. Again, restart the server.

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rocketboy37 commented

Alright I missed moving the ".htaccess" file from when I went from subfolder to root of the htdocs files.

Although, I have now moved the .htaccess file into the drupal application directory i still cant get the clean url's option enabled.

Has anyone out there got Clean URL's working with Drupal 6.9 on Suse Linux Enterprise? I have followed all the instructions in the Drupal documentation to the word.