[support] Drupal 5 works with FF not IE

Victor Kane victorkane at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 09:01:07 UTC 2008


What version of Drupal is installed?

Follow the general instructions at http://drupal.org/node/15365 and then the
instructions on the specific Ubuntu page (http://drupal.org/node/134439).

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Peter Dow (DSS) <pdow at dowsoftware.com>
wrote:

>  Please bear in mind that I'm a newbie with Linux.
>
> I'm running Xubuntu, Apache2.2.8 (Ubuntu), PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.
>
> When using FireFox 3.0, the site works as expected.
>
> When using Internet Explorer 7, login fails, redisplaying the login page
> with the message:
>     Access denied     You are not authorized to access this page.
>
> When I use the Drupal administration to look at the Drupal logs, I see the
> following for the Firefox login:
>
> Details  Type user  Date Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 19:35  User peter<http://71.254.147.252:5080/drupal5/?q=user/2>
> Location http://www.cardenasdow.us/drupal5/?destination=node  Referrer
> http://71.254.147.252:5080/drupal5/  Message Session opened for *peter*.
> Severity notice  Hostname 71.254.147.252
>
> And for the Internet Explorer login:
>
> Details  Type user  Date Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 19:36  User peter<http://71.254.147.252:5080/drupal5/?q=user/2>
> Location http://www.cardenasdow.us/drupal5/?destination=node  Referrer
> http://71.254.147.252:5080/drupal5/?q=node  Message Session opened for *
> peter*.  Severity notice  Hostname 71.254.147.252
> The only difference (other than the time) is the "Referrer" link.  I read
> up on Clean URLs, but cannot seem to get them working correctly.  I have the
> Apache Rewrite module loaded, and in the .htaccess file I have:
>
>   RewriteEngine on
>   Options All
>   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cardenasdow\.us$ [NC]
>   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cardenasdow.us/$1 [L,R=301]
>   RewriteBase /drupal5
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
>
> I used the Drupal module administration to load the Path module.
>
>
> A lot of the posts I've read about this are on the confusing side because
> it is unclear where the file they're telling me to modify actually is.  It's
> also not apparent where things get installed.  Here's what I think I know of
> my directory structure:
>
> Apache is in /etc/apache2.  It has the following subdirectories:
>
> conf.d
> mods-available
> mods-enabled
> sites-available
> sites-enabled
>
> Drupal is in /etc/drupal/5 with subdirectories
>
> profiles
>     default
>
> sites
>     default
>
> My website documents are in /var/www.
>
> Drupal documents are in /var/www/drupal5.
>
>
> I've tried clearing cache tables (cache, cache_filters, cache_menu,
> cache_page) in the drupal database to no avail.
>
> How do I get this to work for IE7?
>
> *Peter Dow* *
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 793-9050
> pdow at dowsoftware.com *
>
>
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