Enabling Clean URLs in Drupal

[jspade]

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I am trying to enable clean URLs in Drupal and can't figure out what adjustments I need to make to the .htaccess file to allow this to work. If anyone has clean URLs working in your Bluehost account please let me know? Thanks in advance.

[dvessel]

A .htaccess file comes with Drupal. You might have missed it. Upload it then login as an admin and go into admin > settings page to turn turn on "Clean URL's" under the general settings.

[alanh]

Can anyone shed some light on Clean URLs for Drupal on Bluehost. I can't enable it apparently due to the type of BH Apache configuration. Is there a workaround I"m missing???:confused:

[charlesgan]

this might help.
http://drupal.org/node/15365

double check the .htaccess content. Commonly caused by this.

[jpratt]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


From example B, drupal.org/node/15365

--John

[choz]

If you're still having problems with this (as I was) - by default the htaccess file included in the drupal install is originally named htaccess.txt. I assume this is so it doesn't overwrite any .htaccess file you might already have. At any rate, after you rename it to .htaccess clean urls should work fine.

[alemcherry]

choz is right. All that is required is to rename and enable clean URLs from admin cp.

[mbenson111]

I renamed the file, and still can't change the setting. Any suggestions as to why?


Nevermind. I haven't had to do anything with htaccess in a while, so I forgot the period. all is well.

[dmageli]

I spent a couple of hours figuring this out & tried changing the code I finally came across this thread. I wish I would have found it sooner but nonetheless, I renamed the file from htaccess.txt to .htaccess in bluehost editor & low and behold it refreshed went back to the admin & it was enabled!! Thanx U Rock, CHOZ!!!:eek:

[erica]

I have renamed the htaccess.txt file as .htaccess, but the clean url test is still failing. Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?