General discussion

For the life of me, I can't get clean URLs to work. I've searched extensively and can't find a topic here or elsewhere that resolves the problem.

I've set up Drupal, Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my machine here in the office in order to create an office intranet. When I choose to enable Clean URLs, I get a "Not Found" error.

I'm running on an XP Pro machine, using Apache 2.054.

The base URL for the Drupal site is http://localhost/vbcintranet. I've run the following script:

print_r(apache_get_modules());

to test that mod_rewrite is properly loaded on the server, and it shows it available.

My .htaccess file contains the following in the Rewrite section:

# Various rewrite rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

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

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

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

It's essentially the default .htaccess, with only one change: I have played with various options for the RewriteBase directive, thinking it made sense that that might be the problem, but to no avail.

I'm not a programmer (I know enough to be dangerous), and would really appreciate some leads on how to get this functioning.

Thanks,
Mark

Team,

I am totally new to Drupal. I am a developer using java, bea weblogic and oracle. I heard that drupal is quick and easy to create some websites. I downloaded drupal-4.5.2. Can anybody guide me what need to be done next?

1. How to use drupal?
2. Want to know how to use the demo at the following site:
http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=132

Hi everybody,

I'm not yet deep into drupal - I'll probably study it next week,
so i'm here to ask a probably simple question.

Is there an easy way to separate article from its comments?

In forum the original post and its comments have identical visual "weight", but for stories I would like to make very apparent the differences from article and its comments, perhaps even separated at all (comments in a popup window).

Thanks for your attention, and please me for my english (for this message and the following).

Ghibli

K fellow Drupal users.... I'm so at my wit's end.

I'm trying to get a website up and running daily for a business I've been wanting to launch now since October.
I'm finding myself from Drupal 4.4 to current between two websites, dancing around with fixes, patches, etc to get parts working to how I need customized for my needs in alignment with my business focus. I initially upgraded from 4.4 to 4.5 because of the functionality that its modules contained that 4.4 didn't have to offer so I HAD to upgrade at that time AND have been happy for the most part besides the pressure I put on myself to get things customized just right.

I'm at the computer probably a good 10 hours a day trying to log my changes, wait for feedback on issues from my fellow drupallers, while creating content, etc... and then now most issues seem to be about more and more improvement focusing towards 4.6. I totally agree and am FOR that vision of achieving perfection in workability especially with php 5.0 demands, etc. Still, I want what 4.5 has to offer so I can start my business now.

I don't want to upgrade to 4.6 if I don't have to thus far (did with one of my sites and that was a day of policing sections that didn't upgrade properly) - so with 4.5 modules currently, and I know that many are not core items as they are just contributed, but can we not lose the focus that some people do want for certain versions to remain as they are and not upgrade until they have to?

I am a part-time programmer and Drupal user. Unfortunately, I lack both the time and intimate familiarity with Drupal and its modules to modify and improve the code. Instead, I've got a wish list in my head of dozens of different features and improvements I'd like to see made to the various modules. I contribute what I can, but as a part-time programmer who lacks a deep familiarity with Drupal's many modules, I'm often left with a sense of frustration waiting for other developers to eventually get around to scratching an itch that happens to be mine, too.

For example, I would definitely love to see a recurring event feature built into the event module. Right now, there's a patch for it but the module maintainer, Killes, wants a better technical implementation of that feature. Now, if I were rich, I could flip the Killes several hundred bills (or whatever his asking price is) to get the job done. Unfortunately, I'm not.

There are, I'm sure, dozens and dozens of other people out there who've got precisely the same itch as me. So what if we all chipped in 20 dollars/euros/pesos/yen to make it happen?

So, I'm wondering if anyone out there is aware of efforts in the open source world to devise an online marketplace where large groups of software "consumers" could pool their purchasing power to fund the work of independent software "producers?" If such a system has not been tried or does not already exist, I'd be surprised.

I just got hit with a new kind of comment spam I haven't seen before at two different sites. Each spam consists entirely of a string of hex digits for the author, subject, and comment body. The URL is also in hex and it points to an online poker site. I saw several variants and each one occurred in pairs, with both comments coming from a different IP address.

Has anyone else seen this?