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
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
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@dowsoftware.com