By Fuzzbucket on

Just in the past day drupal has decided it wants to be in my URL (yes - I know - drupal didn't decide anything - I surely mussed something up).

Right now my URL shows up as http://mysite/drupal/admin/themes (as an example).

The path to my site is x:\www\drupal\sites\mysite

I am sure I did something here - but I can not find it. BTW - this is sporadic. It will go fine (without the word Drupal in my address) for a few minutes and then when I navigate somewhere else it is back.

Thank you in advance.

- SZ

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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vm’s picture

vm commented

is drupal actually installed in the subdirectory drupal ? if so you will need some .htaccess magic, or drupal install in the root rather than in a subdirectory.

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Fuzzbucket commented

This is the way it came down with the Web Developer package. I am actually going to move it over to my hosting company today. I take it that I should not have drupal in a folder under my html_public folder on my provider, but rather install drupal in teh root of the html_public folder. That will at least solve the problem on my public site - correct?

vm’s picture

vm commented

yes

joachim’s picture

joachim commented

I've seen mention of htaccess magic to do this on the forum before... I've been hunting in the apache manual but the attempts I made failed.

Any chance someone could give the details of this htaccess magic? :)

(If it's an incentive, I promise to add it to a handbook page!)

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joachim commented

As promised: http://drupal.org/node/135206

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bpocanada commented

Maybe this will help to bypass a directory within from drupal.. It assumes that you have CLEAN URL enabled.

=========[ start of .htaccess snippet]==========

RewriteEngine on
#
# stuff to let through (ignore)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder1/" [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder2/"
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]
#
====================[ end ]=====================

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joachim commented

I put that in my webserver's root directory, and that just got me an error...

Here's what worked:
=========[ start of .htaccess snippet]==========
RewriteEngine on
#
# stuff to let through (ignore)
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder1/" [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder2/"
RewriteRule (.*) drupal5/$1 [L]
====================[ end ]=====================

I commented out the RewriteConds, as there's currently nothing else I want to let through once my drupal goes live.
Replace 'drupal5' with the folder name in which your drupal is.

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Success commented

Thanks.

I installed drupal in /drupal/ folder.

How to remove the /drupal/ portion from the url?

Success’s picture

Success commented

More here http://drupal.org/node/22336

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joachim commented

What I say above is what worked for me -- create a file called .htaccess in your webserver's root folder. Paste that code above into it.

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Success commented

Is there a way to remove the /drupal/ portion from the url?

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twood commented

I found this to work:

create an .htaccess file by writing this in a text editor:

DirectoryIndex drupal/index.php

Save it to your htdocs or httpdocs directory as ".htaccess" (as ASCII)

It worked for me. Consult your host company if you have a problem or don't know about your server.