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By lowcarbkitten on
My webhost uses the localhost/admin directory for the online admin tools for hosting.
Is it possible to change the URLs in the Administration area, so the admin/ directory isn't used?
When I click on modules in the admin section, my webhost attempts to open my webhost tools, which kinds of breaks Drupal.
I tried moving drupal to /drupal, so that admin would be drupal/admin, but that didn't work.
I can't actually see an /admin directory, so I'm not sure how to edit it.
I searched for this on the site, but I couldn't find anything.
If this has already been covered elsewhere, I'd like to know where.
Comments
Using admin
My webhost also has a control panel which u use foobar.com/admin to access. The best thing to do it keep everything relating to drupal the same but access the admin area by using foobar.com/?q=admin and it should all work fine.
Thanks
Using that URL, I get:
You are not authorized to access this page.
http://www.lowcarbkitten.com/?q=admin
but now I have that workaround, I'm noticing other pages are also not found:
http://www.lowcarbkitten.com/node/add
The requested URL /node/add was not found on this server.
Have I broken something else here as well?
Authorization
The "You are not authorized to access this page." message is a Drupal message and indicates that you need to authenticate first. Log on as user #1 and try again ... it should work.
htaccess
The requested URL /node/add was not found on this server. Indicates that the URL is not being rewritten, did you upload the .htaccess file?
There was a similar thread you might find interesting: Changing "user" and "admin" URLs (host automatically redirects).
Thanks
That's the kind of thread I was looking for.
htaccess file
I haven't heard anything back here
http://drupal.org/comment/reply/2476/4636
Are there any Drupal docs on what the htaccess file should look like?