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Submitted by drupal6 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 02:31

Drupal 6 Clean URLs story part Four

Note the following directions do not adequately cover everything that needs to be included in a site's Apache configuration file to make sure the site is secure. The files directory needs a SetHandler directive per http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-006/advisory.txt

Enabling .htaccess in Apache requires more work on the part of the server. A full explanation can be found here:
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3436911

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Submitted by drupal6 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 02:30

Drupal 6 Clean URLs story part Three

Server configuration for Clean URLs on a shared server, with .htaccess

The standard Drupal installation contains a sample .htaccess file which should be sufficient to get Clean URLs running. It is easy to miss copying this file, because of the leading "dot". So before trying to enable Clean URLs, make sure this file exists in your Drupal installation.

If you have this file installed, but Clean URLs still do not work, you can try some of the troubleshooting suggestions below. If you still cannot get Clean URLs to work, contact your hosting provider.
Fixing problems
RewriteBase setting

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Submitted by drupal6 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 02:29

Drupal 6 Clean URLs story part Two

Server configuration for Clean URLs on a dedicated server, with httpd.conf

Enabling clean URLs on a dedicated server involves these steps:

1. Enable mod_rewrite for Apache. You can talk to your web host or consult the Apache documentation for mod_rewrite to get more information on how to do this. At a minimum, this will involve making sure that mod_rewrite is enabled for your installation of Apache.

To test if mod_rewrite is available in Apache2, you can type the following at a command prompt, to list all installed Apache modules:
apache2ctl -M

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Submitted by drupal6 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 02:27

Drupal 6 Clean URLs story part One

By default, Drupal uses and generates URLs for your site's pages that look like "http://www.example.com/?q=node/83." This style of URLs can be hard to read, and can prevent some search engines from indexing all the pages of your site. Research suggests this may not be as great an issue for some of the major search engines as it once was; however, it is worth noting the recommendation from Google's webmaster guidelines stating:

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