The following is extracted from my online article "Drupal Develoipment Server" http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/345:
Ubuntu:
In order for clean URLs to work in Drupal, you need to enable .htaccess files and install mod rewrite. First I edited /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.
Before (lines 10-18):
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ...
After:
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All ...
Then I executed the following in order to enable mod_rewrite and restart apache server:
# a2enmod rewrite Module rewrite installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.
# apache2ctl restart
The apache server restarted ok, but I got this pesky error:
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
I edited /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and added a ServerName directive just under the ServerRoot directive:
ServerRoot "/etc/apache2" ServerName hostname
Where hostname should be whatever you get when you execute "hostname". You should get an error message free apache server restart now. Restart apache server:
$ apache2ctl restart
And you should be good to go for clean urls
Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar http://projectflowandtracker.com
2009/3/26 Vinay Yadav vinay@vinayras.com
Have you downloaded .htaccess file along with code?
Do you have .htaccess support enabled in your web server (Allowoverride All, check in httpd.conf)
This should help
Vinay
2009/3/27 Nikhil Kala nikhilrkale@gmail.com
Hello All,
I have couple of sites running fine on Drupal 5. I used clean URL and autopath module to seo friendly URL's. Now if I try to run same site (I have downloaded the exisitng on localhost) on localhost machine it is giving me error URL not found.
I have configured LAMP server on Ubuntu Machine, whats other things I need to check with the LAMP server to get this project run without changing the URL settings?
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