[support] Troubleshooting URL rewrites

[Amanda B Hickman]

Yes! It would be nice if drupal gave me a little more information about
just what fails. It sends you off to
http://staging.example.com/drupal/admin/settings/clean-urls

where you see a "404: Not Found" error. All my logs say is that I tried
to reach a page that didn't exist (er, and that the page was
http://staging.example.com/drupal/admin/settings/clean-urls which,
indeed, does not exist)

I did read through http://drupal.org/node/15365

I did set the rewrite base.

Changing the Apache <directory> directive to "AllowOverride All" does
work, but I'd like to limit the change to the drupal directory, which I
haven't been able to do.

     15  <Directory /srv/apache2/staging/drupal/>
     16  AllowOverride All
     17  </Directory>

Doesn't get me anywhere.

Adding a rewrite base to the directory setting doesn't help anything:

     15  <Directory /srv/apache2/staging/drupal/>
     16  AllowOverride All
     17  RewriteEngine On
     18  RewriteBase /drupal
     19  </Directory>

I don't know any more tricks, myself. I'm not sure how to interpret the
rewrite rule suggested on drupal.org ...

 <Directory /var/www/example.com>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

I realize that this is an Apache question at this point, but it requires
just enough knowledge of Drupal that I sort of need help here. If anyone
has any insights or fortitude with Apache configuration, I'd like to
resolve this.

Thanks,
Amanda


> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:57:48 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [support] Troubleshooting URL rewrites
> To: support at drupal.org
> Message-ID: <20071023075748.nht2yotlrkwk8s0s at mail.progw.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=ISO-8859-1;	format="flowed"
> 
> Quoting Amanda B Hickman <amanda at velociraptor.info>:
> 
>> Currently, the "clean url" test just fails.
>>
> 
> It'd be kind if it would tell you why now wouldn't it?  I've never had 
> one fail.  Have you looked at the php and server log files?  Perhaps 
> the watchdog table gives a clue?  Do you need to set the RewriteBase?
> 
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
> -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/

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