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Clean URL's need .htaccess File

Submitted by Drupal Dude on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:39pm

If you can't get clean URLs to work on your Drupal installation and you are sure you have everything correct, you might want to check your .htaccess file. This first thing is to make sure you have one.

I have found out that sometimes I miss this file. This is because I installed Drupal by dragging all the files and folders over to my server, but since the .htaccess file starts with a period, OS X hides it. This means that the .htaccess file was never moved over.

So if you are doing a fresh installation and you are dragging over the files and folders that are necessary, make sure you show hidden files and drag the .htaccess file over too.

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Coolest Drupal Site Guy on the Planet

Submitted by coolestguyplanet on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 2:32am.

I recently moved a drupal site from Media Temple to Hostgator including the htaccess files, the new site's index page was ok but all other pages resulted in a 404. I had already backed up the default htaccess file that was created by Hostgator and used that instead - and voila all seemed to be OK - I am thinking of changing my coolest guy on the planet web site from WordPress to Drupal, is it a steep learning curve?