[development] Clean urls openSUSE 11.0 Drupal 6.8

[Dmitri Gaskin]

Additionally, certain hosts just like when you have a RewriteBase set  
- even if it's only /.

Dmitri

On Dec 26, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Henrique Recidive wrote:

> 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
>>