How can I enable clean URLs?

Question

I installed Drupal 7 on Wamp Server. I can't find any checkbox or link to enable clean URLs; I see only the Run the Clean URL Test button.

How can I enable clean URLs?

Answer 1

The settings for the clean URLs are at admin/config/search/clean-urls.
That page shows the "Enable clean URLs" checkbox only when it is possible to enable them; when the server is not configured to support them, that page shows the following message:

Clean URLs cannot be enabled. If you are directed to this page or to a Page not found (404) error after testing for clean URLs, see the online handbook.

On an Apache server, and with the default settings used from Drupal, clean URLs work if:

• The mod_rewrite module is enabled for the server

• The following directives are present in the Apache configuration file

  AllowOverride All
  AccessFileName .htaccess
  

Answer 2

Enable the mod_rewrite module then restart the wampserver.

I think you can enable the mod_rewrite from the quick launch icon. Right click and view open the apache modules menu and make sure the mod_rewrite is enabled.

UPDATE:

Open the file httpd.conf inside apache installation folder and edit the following line:

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
#   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None

To be:

AllowOverride All

Answer 3

Please enable rewrite_module for apache using wampserver interface.

To access it click on the green "w" icon in systray, go to apache > apache modules > click on rewrite_module.

your wampserver icon should turn red and then orange and green. If not try restarting wampserver. When the icon is green visit the apache modules again and ensure that rewrite_module is checked.

enabling rewrite_module is essentially turning on mod_rewrite, but dont know why wampserver calls it so. Hopefully it solves your issue with clean urls, you can verify its fixed by running the test again.

Answer 4

How I solved my problem:

Clean URLS:

1. Enable the mod_rewrite with this command:

   a2enmod rewrite
   

2. Then under /etc/apache2/sites-available edit the “default” file and replace Override None with Override All. This needs to be changed twice.

3. Restart Apache

Answer 5

You can use this by .htaccess file

First find this line of code in .htaccess file

#RewriteBase /

and replace it with following line of code:

RewriteBase /~yoursitename/yoursitename

Remove # from the code. Here yoursitename is the folder name after domain name like example.com/~yoursitename/yoursitename.

Answer 6

For cleaning URL open Terminal -> Type the command vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

It would open the 000-default file there you would see

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride none
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

So select the entire code and put this in place of the code in 000-default file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Now restart the aparche server using

sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 7

We need to uncomment or add the line:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to enable mod_rewrite Apache module.