Drupal - Clean URLs

[davbre87]

Hi there,

I recently installed Drupal and cannot enable 'Clean URLs'. When I go to the administrator page to do this, it tells me:

Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. The handbook page on Clean URLs has additional troubleshooting information.


Setting up Clean URLs | drupal.org gives the following:

To enable clean URLs (if they are not working automatically, you need:

* mod_rewrite enabled in the Apache conf file
* AllowOverride enabled in the Apache conf or vhosts file (so that .htaccess rules can apply)
* The .htaccess filename specified in the Apache conf file
* An .htaccess file in the root of the Drupal directory (may be hidden on some filesystems, but should be there)
* Rewrite instructions in .htaccess (distributed with Drupal, but sometimes needing tweaking)


Can you tell me if any of the above are preventing me from using Clean URLs with Drupal? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

David

[blacknight]

David

Have you created a .htaccess in your public_html directory?

mod_rewrite should work fine on our Linux servers

Michele

[davbre87]

Hi Michele,

I added a .htaccess file to the drupal installation folder. I got the file from the drupal 6.1 download.

That seems to have done the trick. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

David

[blacknight]

David

Glad to have been of help

Michele