I've read and had verified that HTACCESS is a performance hit on Drupal. So I don't want to do clean URLs that way.

Has anyone been sucessful in this? I'm using UBUNTU 8.04 and Drupal 6.19.

THANKS.

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kyler d. boudreau
theatereleven.com

Put the rewrite rules into your virtual host configuration file. It'll probably need to go inside a <Directory> block. That way, the rewrite rules will be loaded and parsed only once when the server starts up.

Thanks - could you expound on that a touch?

I take the same lines out of htaccess and put them in with Apache file? I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 and Apache2. I see a couple configuration files:

httpd.conf
ports.conf
apache2.conf

Those are all in the /etc/apache2 directory. Is that even the right place to look for my server configuration file?

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kyler d. boudreau

theatereleven.com

Did you put all of your website files in /var/www? If so, the file is

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

There'll be a section that begins with

<Directory /var/www>

You put your rewrite rules inside those tags.

Read this.

There is a common misconception that .htaccess files must be used, be in reality anything in .htaccess can go in your configuration file.

Thanks for the feedback!

I have only one Drupal site and one instance of Apache2 installed in the normal places.

I took the rewrite rules out of .htaccess and put them in the directory area of /etc/apache2/sites-available/default but it didn't work. bummer! Here are the rewrite rules I tried:

Set one:

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Those didn't work so after reading another article i tried:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

And of course was reloading and restarting Apache each time. These didn't work for me. Any tips on what I might have wrong? THANKS.

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kyler d. boudreau

theatereleven.com

Are there any other files in the sites-available folder? Are you using a control panel that might load configuration files from different locations?

I don't think %{SERVER_PORT} would be relevant here. The port is usually specified in the <VirtualHost> tag.

Try adding a slash between %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} and %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.

You might have to play with a RewriteBase configuration.

Check /var/log/apache2/error.log for any errors.

What else...?

Thanks for the reply...

There is one other site specified in sites available that I just added. "monitor.servername.com" for use with munin monitoring.

I'm just so new to this stuff I don't even know what to mess with when it comes to these rewrite variables. I have a very vanilla drupal 6.19 installation. One site, one domain name, etc.

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kyler d. boudreau

theatereleven.com