Installing Drupal Part I

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Last Updated on June 19, 2007 EDT by

The Drupal setup portion was pretty easy, I just had to create a database and provide the database login credentials to the Drupal install page. This page is the default page of where you put the install. After this, I was able to post and do all sorts of things.

I did hit a hitch though, when I started playing around with the Drupal “Administer/Site configuration Clean URLs/Clean URL’s”. At first it wasn’t enabled, and of course for Search Engine Optimization I wanted them to work. I knew this could only be done by a .htaccess file, but where was it?

Well, after further searching on Google I find this little article:

http://drupal.org/node/15365

Where it tells you what needs to be in the missing .htaccess file, however the information they provided was:



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

Which then gave me an Internal 500 server error, and I kinda new what was going on. But I was being kinda lazy about it. I checked the apache2 log:


[Thu Jun 14 13:17:58 2007] [alert] [client 64.180.78.228] /home/geektank/public_html/.htaccess:

You will need to remove the "If you don't use the .htaccess that comes with Drupal you'll need to add some rewrite rules into your apache directory directive. Consult the .htaccess file in Drupal for examples of rules.

I was still getting a 500 Internal Server Error, and I saw this in the apache2 error log:


[Thu Jun 14 13:18:22 2007] [alert] [client 64.180.78.228] /home/geektank/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http://geektank.net/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls

LOL, I didn't enable mod_rewrite in apache2. Mind you this is a new install of Debian Etch, so I just did a2enmod rewrite and viola, nice clean links!

Now I just need to get the formatting down for Drupal. I'm use to MediaWiki, which powns.


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