By mademarest on

(can pull up using: www.../?q=alias, but cannot using the preferred www.../alias)

They all worked fine for the longest time.
Now, trying to pull up any URL that is aliased just dumps to the homepage.
The only recent admin change I made was adding the webform.module, but disabling it doesn't revert the path alias to working.

hmm...
any help?
Clients need to access these "private" pages, and can't through the aliased URL.

I've checked permissions, et al.
The alias admin page lists all the correct paths.
thanks!

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Make sure that Drupal's main .htaccess file is there. If that server has worked before with Clean URLs and it is OK, then Drupal's .htaccess should be the only thing needed.

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mademarest commented

File is there.
But the modified date says Aug 24.
I didn't edit.
Could an external file/module have?
What should I look for?
thanks!!

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Does the "clean urls test" fail in the ?q=admin/settings/clean-urls page?

You could upload a fresh .htaccess file from the installation package first, to make sure that there is no wrong or missing setting somewhere.

What is needed for Clean URLs: (somewhere after the middle of Drupal's .htaccess file)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  ...
  ...
  # 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]
</IfModule>

Also:
- Look for Options +FollowSymLinks near the beginning. On some servers that is necessary as well, other servers forbid it.
- Check your RewriteBase setting, to see if removing the # and making it RewriteBase / helps. (Assuming your site is accessed as http://example.com and not as http://example.com/drupal)

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mademarest commented

had to add the line:

RewriteEngine on

thanks for your help! I love this community.