These rewrite rules are expressed in the
.htaccess file provided with the drupal distribution, which by default is not
enabled in the apache server. In your apache configuration file (http.conf or
vhost.conf) you need to explicitly allow overrides for the .htaccess file to be
loaded. This is done by including and AllowOverride directive in the apache configuration
file.
I should also point out that depending on
how you extracted and copied your drupal distribution, it’s possible that
the .htaccess file was not copied to your site at at all. This would also make
it so that the clean urls test would fail.
So you need to make sure three things are
done.
Hope that helps.
Dave
From:
support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Ms. Nancy Wichmann
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012
9:56 AM
To: support@drupal.org;
tony@tony-mac.com
Subject: Re: [support] clean urls
"Clean
URLs" is done by implementing a rewrite rule that changes the non-domain
portion of the URL into a query string. If you don't have mod_rewrite
installed, then it can't do that.
Nancy E.
Wichmann, PMP
(781)
697-6344
(temporary
hearing difficulties make the phone a poor first contact)
Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.