Clean URL and Go Daddy

I experienced the trauma recently of transferring my site over to Go Daddy from another provider called Planet Domain.
However, now that it is there and working, things are 1000% better.

To use virtual domains on Go Daddy - ie. if you have a domain pointed to a subdomain simply uncomment (Remove the #) on:

.htaccess:

  # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
  # uncomment the following line:
   RewriteBase /

Do not put your drupal path in after the slash, just uncomment the line.
Hope this makes things a little more simple.

Michael Wheatland
www.goveonline.com

I'm using drupal 5.1 on the deluxe godaddy shared hosting plan. I've noticed that the .htaccess file for drupal does not seem to work at all.
What's odd is I host several other websites with Gallery1/2 and Gallery's mod_rewrite is working perfectly. Perhaps there are features in the drupal .htaccess file that is not supported with the version of mod_rewrite that godaddy provides. Keep in mind, godaddy is running apache 1.3.33 for shared hosts.

:::UPDATE:::
I was toying with the .htaccess file a bit more and found that using "RewriteBase /" before the RewriteCond made everything work just dandy. This is also referenced in the "Clean URLs" handbook page http://drupal.org/node/15365

Another note to discredit further Godaddy hate. I have confirmed that this htaccess config works on both the economy and deluxe shared hosting plans.

Enjoy!

I have installed version 5 of drupal on a shared host godaddy. I know this question has been dealt with several times before but i just wondered if you could point me in the right direction...

my drupal file is installed as a sub-directory which i installed from go daddy...

so i understand that all i need to do now is go into the .ht access file and past this, but where exactly...i have opened up the .htaccess file in a word programme but i am not sure where to put the code or where to edit it exactly?

RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Unfortunately RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / is not working for me. Nor is RewriteBase /

I have the shared deluxe account, php 5, Drupal 6.2.

I have communicated with Godaddy with no success via e-mail, forums, phone (and maybe chat, but don't remember). They all say the same thing: Mod_rewrite works and go to Drupal.org for a solution.

Now, if everyone on this thread is able to get Clean URL's to work except me, it means that there must be something wrong with the backend, perhaps the particular server in which my account sits. Any ideas? I'm now looking for a different host. I disgusted with Godaddy's stonewalling.

i have tried both of the options, editing the .htaccess file in my drupal subfolder with modules, and also putting a .htaccess file in the root folder, i enabled path module, i went into clean url's in the clean url module, did the test, still got an error on the page, nothing seems to work. Using godaddy shared hosting...

Then i went into all the aragraphs at the bottom of the .htaccess file and I removed the

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
# the rewrite rules are not working properly.
RewriteBase /drupal

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.81.2.3 2007/09/21 12:24:22 drumm Exp $

FINALLY IT WORKED! i WENT IN AND ENABLED THE CLEAN URL'S!

I had to get rid of all the # bits and edit all 3 of the paragraphs with RewriteBase /

I am using a drupal subdirectory in shared hosting by the way....not bad for an amateur who knows absolutely nothing about programming!

I uploaded by ftp a drupal 6.3 install to a godaddy.com Deluxe Hosting account.

In the .htaccess file I Just un-commented the line:

RewriteBase /

This allowed me to enable the Clean URLs module.

Maybe I found it: http://nf0g.projectnf0.com/coffeebranlaxative/2008/05/12/godaddy-drupal-...
I have jsp support enabled. I have disabled it and will see what happens tomorrow. Fingers are crossed.

That FINALLY WORKED!
I did *EVERYTHING* in the above mentioned thread and it was as simple as editing the URL in my browser window.
Many Kudos to you for posting this solution.

I have 6 sites on GODADDY (Economy Shared Hosting plans, basic stuff) and all use Drupal... all drupal installations are in the ROOT folder
and only ONE of my sites was having this issue, it was driving me BONKERS all the others unpacked right out of the box. I (FTP) drupal manually to set up accounts, but with this one single site, the install.php ran BADLY error after error, but when you go to check the error page, the site was up and looking good... I got the basics set up, added whatever modules I wanted, ran the update, but the Clean URLS was giving me nightmares.

Thank you for this EXTREMELY simple fix!

Just another plug for this method. I tried a number of changes to the .htaccess but none changed the result of the clean-url test. I removed the ?q= from the url and bingo! Success.

I have mydomain.com/drupal. I have no .htaccess file in my root. In fact, I have nothing in my root.

In the .htaccess file in my drupal folder I have:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

And it still dosn't work. And I've tried every possible combination of /, /drupal, etc. I tried the /admin/settings/clean-urls/ with the trailing slash solution. I've tried adding an .htaccess to my doc root and changing the $base_url in my settings.php file. I've tried disabling and re-enabling the Path module. Still, no clean urls.

Any ideas? Anyone?