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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