The clean URL test failed.

By codechick on 8 Aug 2012 at 17:23 UTC

I'm running Drupal 7 on CentOS. I have not been able to get the Clean URL test to pass. The rewrite_module is loaded in Apache. I confirmed that the .htaccess file is being used by the Drupal site. How do I figure out why it's still failing? I'm new to Linux and Drupal. I've read articles on the topic, but this has me stumped.

Thanks.

Comments

In a way this is not helpful

chunty commented 8 August 2012 at 20:37

In a way this is not helpful but I had similar problems a while back I and just had to really really really carefully follow the steps for setting up clean urls given on the drupal site here: http://drupal.org/getting-started/clean-urls

No .htaccess file here

Steven P-1 commented 24 July 2013 at 13:34

I am neither new to Linux nor CMS.

Drupal 7 download didn't have an .htaccess file. Who knows what else is hobbled?

What archive did you use? The

heine commented 24 July 2013 at 19:39

What archive did you use? The 7.22 zip and tar.gz archives on this site do contain a .htaccess. (or, works for me).

The clean URL test failed.

rahulbshinde89 commented 25 September 2012 at 07:13

enable mod_rewrite apache from httpd.conf

1. open httpd.conf
2. find mod_rewrite
3. just remove # to enable
4. once it enable then you can run Clean URL
5. this will show check box tick on it and save it

Its working 100%

Wonderful Tip

sosang commented 16 October 2014 at 08:01

Thanks a lot.
It is a wonderful tip for me.
Great solution it is.

I'm using Wamp.
I opened the httpd.conf file.
Followed the above tip.

The trouble with 'Clean URL Test' has gone.

Now enjoying the Clean URLs(just after check enable the service of Clean URLs).

Its not working for me. any

richaAnkit commented 28 April 2015 at 05:00

Its not working for me. any other sol. ?

Answer further down?

jkingsnorth commented 28 April 2015 at 13:01

Check this comment?

JKingsnorth, the above

carroll_webprog commented 13 November 2015 at 19:11

JKingsnorth, the above referenced comment did the trick for me! Thank you.

It worked for me :)

meenalpatil commented 21 December 2015 at 07:10

It worked for me :)

(using Kubuntu 12.04) in file

kanast commented 11 October 2012 at 20:39

(using Kubuntu 12.04)
in file 'default' (etc/apache2/sites-available/default)
change for the Directory /var/www
AllowOverride None
to AllowOverride All

Kanast your solution worked

ramnar commented 30 June 2013 at 07:16

Kanast your solution worked in ubuntu.Probably drupal's clean urls documentation should be updated

me too

Anonymous (not verified) commented 22 December 2012 at 12:18

were you able to fix it?

Remove the ?q= from the URL

rhip commented 10 January 2013 at 09:29

Try navigating to "/admin/config/search/clean-urls" (remove the ?q= from the URL). It sounds silly but it worked for me.

This works

stattler commented 13 January 2013 at 17:15

Holy Cow! After spending 2 hours carefully following all the instructions and finding the clean-url test failed, your comment helped!

Wow

JoshuaHartmann commented 5 March 2013 at 06:02

Mate....you get all the internet!
Fixed it for me too :D

Thanks, this tip worked for

Mat77 commented 13 March 2013 at 14:37

Thanks, this tip worked for me too !

Weird behavior though...

What the heck! I've been

heneryh commented 7 May 2013 at 18:07

What the heck! I've been spending days on this with more system reloads that I can count. Pulled out half my remaining hair.

Anyone know what the underlying cause of this bug is?

RhiannonAmyBuck , thank you!

The heck

oplek commented 11 October 2013 at 20:10

I was banging my head up against a wall until I tried this...

Works

threeg

English

Vancouver

commented 24 February 2014 at 19:15

This spot on fixes the problem. We knew that mod_rewrite was working, as we could hit urls directly by typing them in, just couldn't hit this settings.

Thanks!

Wow Boss

fahadurrehman commented 24 March 2014 at 18:43

I have almost 100's of Drupal websites on the same server never faced this issue before. Your solution Worked for me.

Awesome tip.

mattf commented 28 April 2014 at 13:40

This totally worked for me, too!

+1

bzitzow commented 5 May 2014 at 18:39

Remove the ?q= from the URL

Yes, you are right

rabinkmali commented 15 May 2014 at 05:23

Thank you for the good option, I wasted a day to fix the problem but your suggestion did a magic.

This really did work for me!!

nathalia252 commented 26 June 2014 at 13:22

This really did work for me!!!

Wow!

mabho commented 1 July 2014 at 19:06

I swear I try to avoid `me too`, `thank you` useless comments like this one, but I had to post this: THANK YOU!

nice trick mate, did work for

Ritendra Prasad commented 13 July 2014 at 00:45

nice trick mate, did work for me

Thanks!

msypes commented 24 August 2014 at 23:47

Just to let anyone else know, this crazy suggestion still works!

Michael

OMG! You're my savior!

SolidSnakeGr commented 3 September 2014 at 12:45

After hours of searching around trying codes, settings, and messing up everything, I found your comment that solved my issue!
Your comment deserves better SEO man, so I'll add these keywords to help others as well :

"How to Enable clean URLs on Drupal"
"The clean URL test failed"

RhiannonBristol's solution worked great!

Try navigating to "/admin/config/search/clean-urls" (remove the ?q= from the URL). It sounds silly but it worked for me.

THANKS A TON MAN!!! After

zack.wd commented 27 November 2014 at 10:31

THANKS A TON MAN!!! After adding/removing .htaccess,tinkering httpd.conf and basically pulling out all my hair,this fixed everything...Cheers!

amazing

fuquam commented 10 December 2014 at 17:09

I tried everything and this is what did the trick. Thank you!!

Amazing!

Master Splinter commented 23 January 2015 at 19:32

Can't believe this worked!!!! Amazing!!!!

Oh my good grief, yes this

jkingsnorth commented 30 January 2015 at 19:20

Oh my good grief, yes this fixed the problem.

This page should totally check if ?q= is in the URL, and if it is , display a different error.

Thank you for saving what's left of my sanity.

+100

Thank you,

graphyte commented 12 February 2015 at 15:45

Simply, thank you. My head is sore from banging against the wall after reading article after article on this subject. This one simple solution worked like a charm.

WT.!!!

stevesirois@gmail.com commented 5 August 2015 at 18:49

I was about to punch my laptop.... you save my day!!!! and my laptop! :-)

ur comment solved it for me

chike

English

Nigeria

commented 26 November 2015 at 20:36

after getting real worked up about this, ur comment just solved it. thanks so much.

- Nigerian web designers

Really weird.. but your comment of removing ?q= from url worked

neethu r commented 22 December 2015 at 12:34

Thanks a lot DaisyMaeH for your comment.. saved me!
That's really a weird behavior, but removing the ?q= from the url /admin/config/search/clean-urls and hitting enter, it showed me the check box to enable Clean Urls and once I ticked it and saved, clean urls started working as required. Earlier it was consistently giving me the Clean URL test failed message with no option or check box to enable clean urls.

Thanks! it worked for me as well

designarti commented 25 September 2016 at 11:34

This has to be a bug. Found it also in Drupal 7.50. Should't happen.

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Thank you

ddarras2012 commented 14 November 2017 at 19:57

After failing with everything else in my Nginx Vhosts, this did the trick! Thank you.

still works

diwakar commented 21 March 2019 at 05:19

Try navigating to "/admin/config/search/clean-urls" (remove the ?q= from the URL).

thank you RhiannonPurnell, still works saved me lot of time :)

worked for me!! Thanks

raedshari commented 14 December 2021 at 08:50

worked for me!! Thanks

The clean URL test failed

kiran.sanapathi commented 22 January 2013 at 10:07

I am running Drupal 7 on windows 7. i am unable to run clean URL Test if i run i am getting msg saying that "Clean URLs cannot be enabled. If you are directed to this page or to a Page not found (404) error after testing for clean URLs, see the online handbook". i was enabled mod_rewrite in httpd.conf file. is there any changes need to be made?

Had the same issue (and

keithtoo commented 1 February 2013 at 08:25

Had the same issue (and solved it). mod_rewrite was enabled, but .htaccess wasn't included in the top level directory. I copied the file from the folder where I unzipped Drupal to the folder I use for my site code and re-ran the check with no problems.

An new to drupal I have tried

Kase-1 commented 24 June 2013 at 13:54

An new to drupal I have tried coping the .htaccess file but still am failing, hep specify the folder in which to paste the .htaccess file am using a default batika template. Thanks

re: An new to drupal I have tried

fjgren commented 17 September 2014 at 14:50

Hi, mate.
I'm using wamp, for localhost testing of Durpal in win7. I copied .htaccess from durpal folder, to www folder (parent folder for durpal) and it worked. Hope this helps.

WTF

rahafrouz commented 18 February 2013 at 08:36

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this worked for me after 2 days dealing with this problem !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you dude ;)

rahulbshinde89, thanks a lot.

abrahaa4 commented 11 March 2013 at 17:52

rahulbshinde89, thanks a lot. Your solution worked!

Odd, the

crystaldawn commented 23 March 2013 at 22:35

Odd, the /admin/config/search/clean-urls trick appears to work. The question is, why does overlay cause it to break. Is this a bug with overlay or with something else. I didnt see anything in the issue queue about this anywhere and it should be logged as a bug.

I don't think it has anything

Mat77 commented 25 March 2013 at 18:38

I don't think it has anything to do with overlay as I disabled it before and I was still getting the same issue.

D7 looks really buggy...

this has worked for me

keti-1931 commented 26 April 2013 at 05:38

thanks this has worked for me.

Thanks

flashy commented 7 May 2013 at 08:57

This worked really well for me. Allowed me to quickly solve other issues which were dependent on clean URL's. Thanks

Not Working - RHEL6 - Apache2 - PHP5

mikeesparza commented 20 June 2013 at 00:32

I already spend hours and hours trying to make this work, but no luck :(

Already Follow

1. open httpd.conf
2. find mod_rewrite
3. just remove # to enable
4. once it enable then you can run Clean URL
5. this will show check box tick on it and save it

Also Edit the httpd.conf
"Change for the Directory /var/www
AllowOverride None
to AllowOverride All"

No luck either.

Other thing I notice is that the current version of Drupal 7.22 does not include .htaccess And is not that I am not copying it to my server, because I am uploading the entire zip file to my server and unzip it there.

Please help!

Works!

mikeesparza commented 20 June 2013 at 20:20

After doing all that... I decided to download the Dev version (7.x-dev) And this zip do contains the .htaccess so I just copy it to my server and works like a charm!

Good!

sajagworld commented 4 July 2013 at 04:51

Glad it works. But if you are using a mac. Mac tends to hide .htaccess files inside the folder.

1..htaccess file is hidden by

ramnar commented 30 June 2013 at 07:19

1..htaccess file is hidden by default in the installation.You should enable hidden files to see it
2.Please check if you enabled the module mod_rewrite in apache

This is the only instance of

psorto commented 3 July 2013 at 20:10

This is the only instance of mod_rewrite in my entire httpd.conf file:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

what should I do now?

Works without modifying httpd.conf or .htacess

dougl commented 14 July 2013 at 16:35

Using Ubuntu 12.04 and Drupal 7.22

With the solution below there was no need for me to create and/or modify .htaccess or httpd.conf. The below solution is also not dependent on each drupal site installed on your server as it allows clean url's globally.

1- sudo a2enmod rewrite

2- sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

3- In the above file there are normally 3 entries of the following: AllowOverRide None

4- Change all entries of AllowOverRide None to AllowOverRide All

5- sudo service apache2 reload

Done!

You should now be able to enable clean URL's

Thanks go out to: http://www.ebizontek.com/enable-modrewrite-module-apache-ubuntu for this solution.
Hope it can help someone down the line.

Simple solution. Working fine.

kalidasan commented 3 January 2014 at 06:45

I tried enabling clean URL using drush and done sudo a2enmod rewrite.

It was enabled. But it was showing clean URL run test is failed.

I just changed "AllowOverRide All" under sites-available.

It was started to work :) Thanks.

Worked perfectly!

Nikrene commented 11 May 2014 at 04:59

This was the solution to my problem. It worked when only I changed the three lines where AllowOverRide is mentioned (from None to All). Many thanks!

No .htaccess??

Steven P-1 commented 24 July 2013 at 13:23

Really?

Not worth the trouble for learning this platform when the bozos who maintain it don't even include .htaccess. Who knows what else was left out?

wordpress & joomla work out of the box. This turd comes pre-hobbled.

.htaccess in 7.22

heine commented 24 July 2013 at 19:38

What archive did you use? The 7.22 zip and tar do contain a .htaccess. (or, works for me).

Who is the bozo ?

guguss commented 7 September 2013 at 14:17

@Steven: The .htaccess "was / is / will be" available in all Drupal releases !

Try to ask your computer to display hidden files so it will appear...

Oh thank u soo muchh it works

9tin commented 20 October 2013 at 19:21

Oh thank u soo muchh
it works 4 me

it's the solution

maxview commented 30 April 2014 at 18:32

I tried everything: modified the httpd.conf; checked the .htacess, no way to get through, then just type yoursite/admin/config/search/clean-urls, ok, work off.

Thank you

bufflex commented 16 September 2018 at 19:00

After trying everything, in the end this is what worked for me. Thanks a lot!

1+

Nickodemo commented 31 May 2014 at 09:57

It Works.

Make sure your site isn't in

TWD commented 12 March 2015 at 03:22

Make sure your site isn't in "Maintenance Mode".

About clean URL

gaurav@mapmytalent.in commented 17 April 2015 at 06:25

Just only one thing

Open user httpd.conf file in apache server and remove # from this line

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Now restart your wamp server.

enjoy.

That works to me returning the site to live mode.

agenciaq1 commented 21 May 2017 at 18:57

Thank you for the tip.

I had deactivated the Clean URL and I was trying to activate back, but I was receiving the URL test failed.
I was in Maintenance Mode, then I put the site back online and I could activate again the the Clean URL.

Thank you,

In Ubuntu 15.x worked!

ayushmanshrestha commented 4 December 2015 at 15:06

I followed the steps provided on http://www.dev-metal.com/enable-mod_rewrite-ubuntu-14-04-lts/ and worked!

Activate the mod_rewrite module with

sudo a2enmod rewrite

and restart the apache

sudo service apache2 restart

To use mod_rewrite from within .htaccess files (which is a very common use case), edit the default VirtualHost with

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Search for “DocumentRoot /var/www/html” and add the following lines directly below:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Save and exit the nano editor via CTRL-X, “y” and ENTER.

Removing ?q= from url worked

neethu r commented 22 December 2015 at 12:34

That's really a weird behavior, but removing the ?q= from the url /admin/config/search/clean-urls and hitting enter, it showed me the check box to enable Clean Urls and once I ticked it and saved, clean urls started working as required. Earlier it was consistently giving me the Clean URL test failed message with no option or check box to enable clean urls.

Thank you for the tip.

agenciaq1 commented 21 May 2017 at 18:56

Thank you for the tip.

Thank you,

there are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot the problem:

wizoduwa commented 11 July 2023 at 10:45

sudo httpd -M | grep rewrite

If you don't see any output, mod_rewrite is not enabled. In that case, you can enable it by running:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart httpd

Check AllowOverride: Ensure that the AllowOverride directive is properly set for your Drupal site's virtual host configuration. This allows the .htaccess file to override certain settings. Open the virtual host configuration file in a text editor. On CentOS, it is typically located in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory and has a .conf extension, such as example.com.conf. Look for the <Directory> section that corresponds to your Drupal site and ensure it includes the following lines:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

sudo systemctl restart httpd

ls -l /var/www/html/.htaccess

sudo chmod 644 /var/www/html/.htaccess

Test Clean URLs: After performing the above steps, try accessing your Drupal site with Clean URLs enabled. If you still encounter issues, you can try accessing the Clean URL test directly by visiting:

http://example.com/admin/config/search/clean-urls/check

Replace example.com with your site's domain. This test will provide more detailed information about any problems with Clean URLs.

By following these steps, you should be able to identify and resolve the issue preventing Clean URLs from working in your Drupal 7 installation on CentOS.

The clean URL test failed.

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