[development] Clean urls openSUSE 11.0 Drupal 6.8

[Henrique Recidive]

Hello,

from my experience I see the need of setting RewriteBase only if you
have 2 or more levels deep subdirectories.

Try adding FollowSymLinks to Options directive and commenting out
RewriteBase from .htaccess.

Henrique

2008/12/26 Darren Oh <darrenoh at sidepotsinternational.com>:
> 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
>