Hi, I'm very new to Drupal and have only started using it since yesterday. I've done some trouble-shooting on this problem but can't resolve it. I'm trying to use the "Clean URLs" option in "Administrator -> Settings" but it fails with the error: It appears your host is not configured correctly for Clean URLs. Please check for ModRewrite support with your administrator. I have Drupal installed off a parent website: http://www.domain.com where the drupal files actually exist, and _not_ through a subdirectory like: http://www.domain.com/drupal If I install Drupal into the subdirectory on the same server, the Clean URLs option works fine. If I install Drupal into the parent directory of the web server, drupal fails with the error above. In my apache config, when I have the parent server setup, I have the following entry: UseCanonicalName off VirtualDocumentRoot /home/domain/public_html/%0 which allows me to have alias directories like: /home/domain/public_html/www.domain.com /home/domain/public_html/hostname1.domain.com /home/domain/public_html/hostname2.domain.com so when someone goes to "http://www.domain.com" apache maps them to the: /home/domain/public_html/www.domain.com directory, and when they visit "http://hostname1.domain.com", apache maps them to the: /home/domain/public_html/hostname1.domain.com directory and so on. This is how I've set it up for Drupal, to reside under: /home/domain/public_html/www.domain.com I don't want a "drupal" subdirectory or anything, but still want to use Clean URLs. What's the problem here? Note also I have: # Various rewrite rules. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and # the rewrite rules are not working properly. #RewriteBase /drupal # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'. #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$ #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L] # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'. #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$ #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L] # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> in my .htaccess file within the /home/domain/public_html/www.domain.com directory, and my settings for: <Directory /home/domain/public_html> Options Indexes IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> in my apache conf. I'm using apache 2.0.52. Thanks for any help here. Michael.