By moistTowelette on

I've spent a good few hours getting as far as I have, but that's okay because I'm learning as I go.
I've finally managed to get the index.php page to display correctly. However when I click on any internal link displayed by that page, I get the default apache placeholder page coming up. Anyone know why that might be?

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jibrael’s picture

jibrael commented

Firstly how is apache setup? Are you running drupal from inside the serverroot directory or are you running a directory alias, or have you setup a virtualserver?

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jbrauer commented

As the other comment said, please tell us a little more about how you're setup.

Are you using Clean URL's? Or have you gotten that far?

Can you give a specific example of the link you click on and the URL it takes you to?

Are you logged in when this happens or have you been able to create a user yet?

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pembeci commented

[Repliers: http://drupal.org/node/50121 have some background info about the setup. I think moist is trying to install Drupal on a local machine with fresh Debian]

Are you displaying the index.php page by localhost or localhost/index.php? If the former also directs you to the apache placeholder then you should comment the following in your etc/apache2/sites-available/default file:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

Put a # at the beginning of the line.

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moistTowelette commented

Okay I have drupal set up in /var/www/ on Debian Sarge. I have the index.php page displaying correctly, but am unable to access anything from this page. I'm at work at the moment so I'll double check the details when I get home, but the problem is that ANY internal link I click brings me to the default page, including when I try to log in and click 'okay'. I haven't been able to set up a user.
The hyperlink URLs are something like (this is from memory, for the admin settings link):

http://localhost/?=admin/

and when I click them it brings me to:

http://localhost/apache2-default/?=admin/

which displays an Apache placeholder page. I'm not sure what those question marks mean in the URL, so I'm having a hard time investigating for myself.
Hope this helps, I'll double check details when I get home.

EDIT: The links above are actually http://localhost/?q=admin and http://localhost/apache2-default/?q=admin respectively. Commenting out the line specified in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default results in a different placeholder page being diplayed (the one from Apache 1?). I still can't access index.php by simply typing 'localhost' in my browser.

EDIT #2: Fixed it :). For some reason, renaming /var/www/index.html so that Apache couldn't find it seemed to fix everything. I'm learning slowly...

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jbrauer commented

The order that it looks for index.html vs. index.php is controlled by the DirectoryIndex directive in your Apache settings.

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indiarti.com commented

I was having similar issues. I installed drupal under my webserver htdocs, then had to add the index.php in the line below in the webserver's httpd.conf
"DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var"

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oestrada commented

works great!!!