So far I think I need to modify the htaccess file but, don't know how. So, I\m experimenting with the code. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Killesreiter" killesreiter@physik.uni-freiburg.de To: drupal-support@drupal.org Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [drupal-support] Independent Directories

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, B O'Reilly wrote:

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Drupal 4.5.1, Clean Urls.

I need to be able to create subdirectories that are independent of Drupal. So far I am unable to accomplish this. Does anyone know how or, can someone point me in the right direction?

That seems to be some kind of apache setting. I've always had accessible subdirectories so I don't know which setting to tweak. But I can tell you that it is possible. :)

Cheers, Gerhard -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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On 8 Apr, 2005, at 15:45, Nicolas Tostin wrote:

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I need to be able to create subdirectories that are independent of Drupal. So far I am unable to accomplish this. Does anyone know how or, can someone point me in the right direction?

If a file exists, it will be served, bypassing drupal. That is, if drupal is installed in /www/drupal, and there is a file /www/drupal/ foo/bar.html and you request http://your_site/foo/bar.html you will get bar.html. Drupal will not be used. If a file does not exist, though, Drupal will try to handle the request and/or give an error. For example, http://your_size/foo/baz.html will result in a Drupal "not found" error (404).

The exception to this is the index page. The .htaccess file in drupal sets the index page to index.php. So, if you want your users to be able to go to http://your_site/foo/, the index file in the foo directory must be named index.php, not index.htm or index.html.

HTH.

- Jim