Comments on: How I Fixed Drupal Clean URL’s Using GoDaddy Hosting

By: classified

classified — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:01:12 +0000

Can I use a downloaded theme on there? I have seen some WordPress hosted blogs with different themes, so it looks like it’s possible.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:45:29 +0000

well, my only comment is that it sucks to be the owner of a Drupal web site – doesn’t it? You wouldn’t have that problem if WordPress was the root web site. My only advice is to try the drupal forums for how their htaccess file works.

By: Marvel

Marvel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:30:02 +0000

yikes!

I have a deluxe hosting plan with GoDaddy where my main hosting domain has Drupal installed in it and the domains in my subdirectories have WordPress installed in them… My main domain/Drupal is working fine, but my subdirectory domains get a 403 and subsequent 500 server error when the WordPress blogs try to be retrieved! I worked through the .htaccess file and uncommented the rewritebase / which is how my subdirectory domains even get to show their pretty faces, but how do I make sure the WordPress part of them not have an error!

sorry… obviously my 5th hour trying to figure this out and perusing the net for someone in the same boat.

Looks like the above post are from 2007! yikes again.

By: Eli the Computer Guy

Eli the Computer Guy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:33:00 +0000

God bless you all. I was having a hell of a time trying to figure this problem out. What solved it for me was Doug’s answer.

I changed uncommented RewriteBase /drupal and deleted the drupal part.

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
# For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
# modify the following line:
RewriteBase /

And it worked perfectly within seconds.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:06:08 +0000

I found that Drupal v. 6.x installs an .htaccess file in the mapped domain subfolder - I had the same problem, but changing the rewrite base from "/drupal" to "/" fixed it, as AmitG mentioned. Krikette, my images are also in "files", and they work swimingly. The only problem I had is that in the previous, non-drupal version of the site, they lived in "/images" and I had to re-path all the html to reference "/files". Cheers. Dougs last blog post..Seobook Review (Part 1)

By: Krikette

Krikette — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:14:05 +0000

@Dana – If you’re still having a lot of problems with the Drupal forums and haven’t stuck to WordPress I’d be happy to help you.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:59:25 +0000

@Dana – no I don’t, I used Drupal exclusively on all my sites for 2 years and then changed them all over to WordPress for that very reason. Compare to WordPress, there are only (maybe) 5-10% as much themes, plugins, and support for Drupal. I hate Drupal – I will never go back…

By: Dana Vienas

Dana Vienas — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Ugh, I wish I had seen this tip before I uninstalled Drupal and put Wordpress on my new site. Beside the clean url issue, I was also having real trouble setting up a drupal forum. Do you know of any good tutorial sites for drupal? Dana Vienass last blog post..The Whole Truth About Diet Pills

By: krikette

krikette — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:39:26 +0000

Mind you, with just rewritebase / – trying to view the site directly from the original location: http://www.example.com/site1 will pop you back into the “main” godaddy site. but its reachable by the main URL except for images. :/

By: krikette

krikette — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:37:18 +0000

I couldn’t get the code above for .htaccess to work, but using rewritebase / seems to do the trick — except that now my images don’t show correctly.

Anyone know anything about the images bonking up now? They’re put in by FCKeditor in the /files/ directory.

=)r