How I Fixed Drupal Clean URL’s Using GoDaddy Hosting

11 Comments

1. 

   AmitG on September 28, 2007 at 7:18 am

   hi jtpratt!

   i faced a similar problem. But i managed to fix this by creating a new .htaccess file in the (subfolder/root) of my 2nd domain. This is the code for the modified .htaccess file

   Have fun! no more dual purchases from godaddy 🙂
   AmitG
   Email: rapidsynopsis@gmail.com
   Website: http://www.rapidsynopsis.com
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   #
   # Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
   #

   # Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all

   # Set some options.
   Options -Indexes
   Options +FollowSymLinks

   # Customized error messages.
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

   # Set the default handler.
   DirectoryIndex index.php

   # Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
   # but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

   # PHP 4, Apache 1

   php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
   php_value register_globals 0
   php_value session.auto_start 0

   # PHP 4, Apache 2

   php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
   php_value register_globals 0
   php_value session.auto_start 0

   # PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2

   php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
   php_value register_globals 0
   php_value session.auto_start 0

   # Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.

   ExpiresByType text/html A1

   # Various rewrite rules.

   RewriteEngine on

   # If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www.
   # you can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one option:
   #
   # If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and uncomment the following:
   # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
   # RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
   #
   # If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. , adapt and uncomment the following:
   # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
   # RewriteRule .* http://example.com/ [L,R=301]

   # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
   # the rewrite rules are not working properly.
   RewriteBase /

   # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form ‘node.php?id=x’.
   #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
   #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

   # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form ‘module.php?mod=x’.
   #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
   #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

   # Rewrite rules for static page caching provided by the Boost module
   # BOOST START

   AddCharset utf-8 .html

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/user/login
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !DRUPAL_UID
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/%{REQUEST_URI} -d
   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/$1/index.html [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/user/login
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !DRUPAL_UID
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/$1.html [L]
   # BOOST END

   # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form ‘index.php?q=x’.
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

   # $Id: boosted.txt,v 1.4 2006/12/05 10:39:19 arto Exp $
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2. 

   krikette on March 16, 2008 at 7:37 pm

   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

3. 

   krikette on March 16, 2008 at 7:39 pm

   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. :/

4. 

   Dana Vienas on August 17, 2008 at 2:48 pm

   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

5. 

   admin on August 17, 2008 at 2:59 pm

   @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…

6. 

   Krikette on October 1, 2008 at 8:14 am

   @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.

7. 

   Doug on February 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm

   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.

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8. 

   Eli the Computer Guy on April 29, 2009 at 1:33 pm

   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.

9. 

   Marvel on December 17, 2009 at 6:30 pm

   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.

10. 

    admin on December 17, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    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.

11. 

    classified on March 3, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    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.