By nyumbani_yangu on

Hello,

Its now been a couple of weeks that I am trying to understand this problem that I am getting together with my hosting company but I still cant sort it out.

I installed Drupal inside a subfolder on my host and when I call the URL
www.site.com/drupal_folder
I get redirected without exceptions to a strange URL :

www.site.com/cgi-sys/install.php

I cannot understand why.
I tried making some changes to the .htaccess file as from some posts on this forums but still nothing (I added a rule for subfolder url rewrites or something of the sort) nothing...
I also tried removing the .htaccess file => again nothing.

It seems as there is some rewrite rule somewhere that's getting used and its changing subfolder names to cgi-sys

I am not sure what the problem may be and if it really is the .htaccess..
I also tried making a test folder inside the public_html on my host and adding a test PHP script in it... The script shows up correctly... (www.site.com/test/phpinfo.php)

So its only the drupal scripts which are causing this error from within the subfolder where I'de like to install my drupal-driven site.

Might it be the server config?? But my host said that he had checked with the server and there seems to be no problems.. well... who knows...

Thanks in advance for your support

ny

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Comments

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

you may be on the right path with htaccess. This was a search using cgi-sys but not adding drupal or anything else. It seems there is a lot of discussion about this.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=cgi-sys&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f...

This one talks about a way to check things using htaccess, but i think you did that with your php script.
Still, might be good to have a look.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3723830.htm

It seems to be something apache and maybe htaccess using SymLinks, I wish i could tell you the exact answer.

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

this one maybe related
http://drupal.org/node/207009

yep, this is it.. pretty sure

nyumbani_yangu’s picture

nyumbani_yangu commented

Thanks, we're looking into this...

I did change my PHP version from 5 to 4 on the host's control panel .

I guess it might have messed up the Apache settings...

Hopefully we'll work around this ASAP

Thanks again

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