By Ferrite on

Help!

Drupal has decided that it doesn't like my site

I built the online Firefox to Flock extension converter Flock'd @ http://www.outraged-artists.com/flockd and after changing my site to Drupal it won't allow the script to run properly! Everything posted via the GET method is not going to flockd.php.

I've practically torn out my hair messing with the .htaccess file, which will either turn off mod_rewrite for that directory or if I add anything other 'RewriteEngine off', do absolutely nothing and send me to the Drupal 404 page.

I was smart enough to back up my previous site, but I'd really like to use Drupal instead of Wordpress.

How can I get the /flockd/ directory to disable mod_rewrite _and_ fix whatever's wrong with GET?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

Comments

dman’s picture

dman commented

A scan of the mod_rewrite docs (which always scared me) suggests you just need to experiment with:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^flockd   
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

.dan.

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.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

Ferrite’s picture

Ferrite commented

but your idea seems to work a little better...
The address is no longer rewritten, but the info is still not going to my .php file.
Something is still interfering with GET

John Hwang’s picture

John Hwang commented

Another option would be to install your drupal in a subdirectory under your public_html that way you can run/host multiple, php applications in separate directories.

~/public_html/site is where I install my drupal installation.

Then flockd could be under ~/public_html/flockd and not worry about interfering with your drupal installation.

Personally, I create a "www" directory in my home directory, were I install all my web applications under, then I create a symbolical link from public_html. i.e., I install/untar drupal-4.6.x to ~/home/www/drupal-4.6.x then in public_html, I link to my drupal installation by executing, "ln -s ~/www/drupal-4.6.x site". I even do this common directories such as "images" or "files" directories. The benefit is that I can have common elements can be shared across multiple installations and you can easily switch/upgrade to new versions without just by re-linking site to the new installation. Maybe this was too much unrelated detail...

The point is, install drupal in a subdirectory.

Judder’s picture

Judder commented

Just an FYI you also need to enable the php files inside the directory

# Allow access to PHP files in /flockd
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/flockd/[^/]*\.php$