[development] Clean urls openSUSE 11.0 Drupal 6.8

[Darren Oh]

If you use an alias, RewriteBase should be /. If you use a  
subdirectory, the subdirectory name in RewriteBase should begin with /.

On Dec 26, 2008, at 2:29 AM, rsw-ml at silverarc.biz wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to solve this issue since long, and now I badly  
> need
> your help.
>
> My clean url's just dont seem to get enabled, on the Administer page  
> for
> Clean URL's, it says this:
>
> Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. The
> handbook page on Clean URLs has additional troubleshooting  
> information.
>
> And to change my system configurations for apache, I have done all  
> this:
>
> 1. I have checked under phpinfo() that my mod_rewrite module is  
> enabled.
> It sure is enabled.
> 2. My .htacces file looks like this:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteBase drupal6
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
>
> 3. I have also made changes in default-server.conf file, to  
> AllowOverride
> All under the script for the root document. It looks like this:
> DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs"
>
> #
> # Configure the DocumentRoot
> #
> <Directory "/srv/www/htdocs">
>        # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
>        # or any combination of:
>        #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch  
> ExecCGI
> MultiViews
>        #
>        # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* ---  
> "Options All"
>        # doesn't give it to you.
>        #
>        # The Options directive is both complicated and important.   
> Please
> see
>        # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/mod/core.html#options
>        # for more information.
>        Options None
>        # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in
> .htaccess files.
>        # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
>        #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>        AllowOverride All
>        # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I would like to mention here that I have created an alias for  
> drupal6 that
> resides under my public_html folder. The reason for this is that: My
> themes were not working properly until i created an alias. i really  
> dont
> know the exact reason for the same - would be great if anyone would  
> throw
> some light on it. Actually, I just had a feeling that may be site is  
> not
> liking the '~' sign in the path and hence is not redirecting  
> properly. So
> it was just a try and to my pleasant surprise the alias option did  
> work
> for me!
>
> Alias /drupal6 "/home/radhikaw/public_html/drupal6"
>
> <Directory "/home/radhikaw/public_html/drupal6">
>        Options Indexes MultiViews
>        AllowOverride None
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> When I tried to AllowOverride All in the alias script, it said Access
> forbidden!!
> So, I changed it back to None in the Alias script.
>
>
> Anyways, but the whole issue is that I am not able to enable clean  
> urls....
>
> Hope to get some help soon!
>
> Thanks in advance!!
> Radhika