Problem with clean URLs

Submitted by mmt369 on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 16:50
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My first Drupal install on Mac OS X 10.5.6 has not been easy! However, I think it's reasonably happy except that no matter what I try with editing various .conf and .htaccess files following suggestions on various Web sites including http://drupal.org/node/134814, I cannot get my installation of 6.10 to agree that clean URLs are possible. To get the GD Library I had to install Marc Liyanage's PHP http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php, and I'm wondering if this is relevant. If anyone has managed to get both GD Library and clean URLs on Drupal 6.10 Mac OS X 10.5.6, I'd love to know how!

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1. Do you have mod_rewrite

Submitted by dorien on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 17:40.

Do you have mod_rewrite enabled? You can see this by running phpinfo();

You might need to add a rewrite rule in .htaccess (uncomment the / and fill in the part after localhost in your url bar)

2. Magic

Submitted by mmt369 on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 22:46.

I started to follow this advicce (after a night's sleep), and the result was inability to access anything. So I commented out the line "RewriteBase mydocroot" in .htaccess, and like magic, I was allowed to set clean URLs. I have no idea what is different from any of the many variants of this that I tried yesterday, but it does work now. Whether it will work when I try to buid a real site rather than the toy one I am using as a learning experience, I have no idea. I don't like magic, when it comes to configuring software.