[development] Subsite

[Morbus Iff]

> We have a copy of our pre-Drupal HTML site and would now like to resurrect a portion of it. Is it possible to have a plain HTML site as a sub-site of the Drupal site? I have done it the other way around, so I suspect it is possible. Are there any gotchas I need to be aware of (other than Apache redirects that have to be removed)?

Nope, it’ll work fine - I have many non-Drupal subsites in my Drupal install.

The biggest gotcha will be ensuring that your mod_rewrite rules (in .htaccess) are working properly - if they’re not, then Drupal will try to take over ALL URLs (whether they exist on the filesystem or not). You can test that pretty easily by just creating dummy/whee.html and making sure you can access it right now, without Drupal interfering.

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