[support] [Fwd: Re: Disappearing .htaccess File]
Victor Kane
victorkane at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 08:45:07 UTC 2008
First off, please go to the Drupal Handbook and read the section on Clean
URLs: http://drupal.org/node/15365
"Take a deep breath" and read the introductory howto article, and carry that
out, and then only if necessary, any special case articles you feel might
help.
Apart from that (the most important), on the basis of what you are saying
here, you just need to make a VirtualHost entry for each document root, not
for subdirectories.
The document root is the top-most directory where something like index.html
or index.php can be invoked.
If I make a directory: /home/myproject/html, where I am thinking of placing
a Drupal virtual host for a project (so I would have
/home/myproject/html/index.php), the following works for me:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName myproject.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/myproject/html
<Directory "/home/myproject/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Then, we assume that the url myproject.example.com either has an A entry in
your DNS zone configuration (configured subdomain) or temporarily exists in
the /etc/hosts file of your client.
What is your DNS setup? What exactly do you mean when you say
"/var/www/html/gn-qa maps to /home/myname"?
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>
wrote:
In the example you give, /var/www/html/gn-qa would need to be the document
root (i.e. index.php would work there).
Also, you say it is colocation; so, did you install and enable the Apache
mod_rewrite module? That is necessary for clean URLs, as seen in the Drupal
Handbook Documentation page.
Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar
That saga continues...
>
> I've been trying for a couple hours now to get my clean URLs to work by
> modifying httpd.conf, but nothing seems to work. I added
> the following to the httpd.conf file
>
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
> </IfModule>
>
> and reloaded, but I still get "The requested URL /xxxxx was not found on
> this server." for every link I try to go to. I can get
> to each page using the non-clean URLs.
>
> I also tried adding to this
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName cms-qa.goosenetworks.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/gn-qa
> </VirtualHost>
>
> to get this:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName cms-qa.goosenetworks.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/gn-qa
> <Directory /var/www/html/gn-qa>
> AllowOverride All
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Now /var/www/html/gn-qa maps to /home/myname. Is /home/myname what needs
> to go in <Directory>? Also, Do I need quotes around the
> directory path/name?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve (just about to pull out what's left of his hair).
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [support] Disappearing .htaccess File
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:11:02 -0700
> From: Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>
> To: support at drupal.org
> References: <4882D8FC.7080502 at comcast.net> <
> 20080720070432.25741pbhfjj6e1z4 at illyria.philipnet.com> <
> 4882E808.2040507 at comcast.net>
> <20080720074151.138973hgc0qlqi8s at illyria.philipnet.com>
>
> OK, it's a collocated box, and I got root access to it. Where do I find
> the Apache config files? I've been poking around and
> haven't found them yet.
>
> Steve
>
> philip at philipnet.com wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > If it's not your client, then it's the server.
> > I've used hosting companies before where they won't show the .htaccess
> > file (or any file starting with '.') in a directory listing. In those
> > cases the companies have recommended keeping a local copy of the
> > .htaccess or .htpasswd file(s) in case you ever need to amend them.
> >
> > And what about the Apache configuration?
> > Can you confirm that that allows .htaccess files to override the
> settings?
> > Because of a performance hit when using .htaccess files some hosts
> > don't allow .htaccess files.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Philipnet.
> >
> > Quoting "Steve Edwards" <killshot91 at comcast.net>:
> >
> >> I'm using FileZilla, and I can see the .htaccess file just fine on
> >> my own server. I can upload and download to and from that
> >> server and see the file (and also on other servers) without a problem.
> >>
> >> The reason I don't think it is there is because none of my links
> >> work. I'm using clean URLs and the home page shows fine, but
> >> every link I click on gives the "URL /xxxxx not found on this
> >> server" error message.
> >>
> >> I can't access the .conf file. My FTP access puts me in the Drupal
> >> root, which is a subdomain. I tried modifying Base_Rewrite,
> >> but that does no good since the .htaccess isn't even there in the
> >> first place.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> philip at philipnet.com wrote:
> >>> Quoting "Steve Edwards" <killshot91 at comcast.net>:
> >>>
> >>>> I've been working on a customer site on my server, and I uploaded it
> >>>> to the client server today. The front page displayed fine,
> >>>> but when I click on any links, I get page not found errors. I'm
> >>>> using clean URLs on my server (like I do on every project), and I
> >>>> noticed that the .htaccess file was missing. I uploaded it twice,
> >>>> but when I go to another folder and come back, it's gone, as if
> >>>> I never uploaded it in the first place. I asked the client about
> >>>> it, and they know of nothing that would do that. Has anybody
> >>>> seen this before, or know how to fix it?
> >>> Hey Steve,
> >>>
> >>> Under UNIX/Linux any file that starts with a '.' is considered a
> >>> hidden file - i.e. a file that's not normally shown when you list the
> >>> contents of a directory.
> >>>
> >>> There should be an option on your FTP client to show hidden files.
> >>>
> >>> Note that even if hidden, the .htaccess file still exists and should
> >>> take effect. However it sounds like it doesn't. Can you examine/modify
> >>> the Apache configuration so that .htaccess file take effect?
> >>> Something like:
> >>>
> >>> <Directory "/location/on/remote/server/to/drupal/installation">
> >>> Options All
> >>> AllowOverride All
> >>> </Directory>
> >>>
> >>> in the Apache configuration should work.
> >>>
> >>> Regards.
> >>>
> >>> Philipnet.
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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