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Another share to what I’ve done during my sidejob project i.e. to enable .htaccess for Drupal CMS.

My server configurations for drupal CMS are mention below:

1.    It’s part of the main URL (you can say it “subdirectory” with alias on httpd.conf) and my httpd.conf settings :

…

Alias /kampret/ “/var/www/html/drupal-6.6/”

 

<Directory “/var/www/html/drupal-6.6″>

    Options Indexes MultiViews

    AllowOverride All

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

…

so to access my drupal it will be “http://main-url.com/kampret/”

2.    I’ve enabled the mod_rewrite capability on httpd.conf by defining configuration as below :

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

…

AccessFileName .htaccess

…

<Files ~ “^\.ht”>

    Order allow,deny

    Deny from all

</Files>

 

And next, to enable CLEAR URL capability for drupal just make sure the file .htaccess under my drupal root document is exist, for my case it should be under /var/www/html/drupal-6.6/.htaccess

If .htaccess already there, so you just need to

1.       un-comment and change line containing :

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# RewriteBase /drupal

…

to become like below (please make sure that it use the same pattern as your alias for subdirectory on httpd.conf, in my case I use “/kampret/” as alias):

…

RewriteBase /kampret/

…

2.       restart httpd service by issuing this command (for redhat / fedora based distribution) :

[apache@kampret] $service httpd restart

Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

3.  Go to your DRUPAL ADMIN PAGE and then open Administer –> Site Configuration –> Clean URLs, choose ENABLED and the SAVE IT !!!

Done!!!  Hopefully, this can be useful for everyone who may need this kind of howto, thanks