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Drupal – Enable clean URLs

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Clean URLs makes the HTTP links easier to read. Without clean URLs, the links would be like this
http://host_domain/drupal/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls
which is hard to read, rite?

In addition, some Drupal modules required clean URLs. Therefore, enabling clean URLs is a key feature to make your Drupal application better.

here are the steps to enable the clean URLs feature

1. Check if the Apache mod_rewrite module is enabled
– apache2ctl -M

2. Enable it if no mod_rewrite is found
– a2enmod rewrite

3. Create /etc/apache2/conf.d/drupal.conf for the Drupal to work on Apache

<Directory /var/www/drupal>
        RewriteEngine on
        # Replace <drupal> with your drupal directory name
        RewriteBase /<drupal>
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

4. Restart apache
– /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

5. Now you can enable the clean URLs on the Drupal administration panel

Enable Clean URLs
Enable Clean URLs

Done =)

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9 thoughts on “Drupal – Enable clean URLs”

  1. Guys,
    I have gone through this problem and you know what..it takes couple of days to configure I mean to understand and solve..

    All the above instruction is just fine..only the confusion part is..@ the line
    RewriteBase /drupal

    in the place of drupal..just replace your folder name.Thats it..
    Cheer!!
    Mith

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  2. Thank you! Worked fine with me.
    (same feedback that mith495, you should write to change ‘drupal’ by the site directory name)

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