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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=074431100-08122005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Ron, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=074431100-08122005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>This is in your apache httpd.conf file, or alternatively in
the included vhosts.conf file for apache. Where this lives depends on your
distribtution. In mine (redhat) it's in /etc/httpd/conf.
Here's a sample of the drupal configured snippet. By default in apache the
AllowOverride is set to none. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><Directory "/www/www2"><BR>Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks
MultiViews<BR>AllowOverride all <BR>Order allow,deny<BR>Allow from all</P>
<P></Directory></P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ron
Mahon<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
support@drupal.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [support] Base URL Problem
<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dave
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You got me on the right
track.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had tried q=user to
log on but it didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">q=admin/settings no
only works but everything showed with clean url.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Not familiar with
“allow overrides” is or how to configure it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ron<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Metzler,
David [mailto:MetzlerD@evergreen.edu] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:20
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> support@drupal.org;
drupal-support@drupal.org<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [support] Base URL Problem
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Also I'd verify that
allow overrides is configured for this directory in Apache, and that mod_rewrite
is enabled. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can also
temporarily test drupal without clean URL's enabled. You should be able to
access the back door page by navigating directly to <A
href="http://localhost/inmrc?q=admin/settings">http://localhost/inmrc?q=admin/settings</A>.
Drupal will let you know whether clean URL's will work with your current apache
config settings. You can temporarily disable clean urls' while you get
your apache config working right. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dave</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Ron Mahon<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:14
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
drupal-support@drupal.org<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [support] Base URL Problem
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I am setting up a new test server on Ubunt Linux. Every
thing was looking Good, until I tried to get past the first page in Drupal.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I copy this whole site directory from Windows to Linux
the databases are identical every thing is the
same.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Except that the windows machine used php5. The Linux
machine is using php4.3. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I figure it’s something to do with the apache 2 setup or
configuration.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This is the base string<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">$base_url =
'http://localhost/inmrc';<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This is the error I get.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The requested URL /inmrc/user was not found on this
server. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The base directory string is correct, but it seams to
ignore the <A href="http://localhost/">http://localhost</A> part
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Has anybody experienced
this? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Thanks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Ron<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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