[support] Clean urls

[Shai Gluskin]

Is httpdocs at the root level of the domain. Enabling Clean URLs works
simply by running the "clean url test" and toggling that "enabled" radio on
a mod_rewrite enabled server when Drupal is installed at the domain route.
If Drupal is not installed at the domain route is the scenario for fussing
with .htaccess, settings.php etc.

I think that fussing with these files should only be done in the service of
figuring out WHY it isn't working out of the box. If clean urls are not
working and they should be, and you successfully get them to work by fussing
with code in various files, whatever is broken will likely come back later
to bite you.

Best,

Shai
content2zero <http://content2zero.com>

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Troy <troythetechguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having an issue getting clean urls to work.  I'm set-up on a shared
> > hosting plan, and my host verified mod_rewrite is already enabled on the
> > server side.  I tried different settings in .htaccess, but nothing seems
> to
> > work.  Here's the interesting part: When I run the "clean URL test" it
> > passes and the radio buttons to enable clean urls become functional.
> > However, after selecting enable, then clicking save configuration, the
> > selection defaults back to disabled.
>
>
> The only thing which the clean URLs setting does is to make Drupal
> actually use them in the menu links, if they are *already* enabled by
> .htaccess. So, try to type some clean URLs yourself in your browser to
> see if they work. If they do work, then the problem is not clean URLs
> but saving your setting.
>
> If they work, try also to force-enable them in your settings.php file
> by adding a $conf['clean_url'] = 1; at the end.
>
>
> >
> > My drupal install is located in a directory called httpdocs, which I was
> > told is equivalent to /var/www.  I did not put the drupal install in a
> > folder of its own, rather I just installed all the files in the httpdocs
> > directory.
> >
> > Any ideas or suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Troy
> >
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