not my blog

Just got this awesome new camera tonight for Christmas from my Dad and his wife. Thing is a very small 5.0 megapixel camera that is just really cool. Check out the Canon Powershot SD450. Now I definately need to get myself a Flickr Pro acct. I’ll post some example shots posted a little bit later once I get everything unpacked and it hooked up. Thanks Dad!

I started work on getting my new site setup today and ran into an interesting issue with Drupal. For some odd reason through the admin page it fails it’s mod_rewrite test and barfs back with a message to check that mod_rewrite is enabled:

It appears your host is not configured correctly for Clean URLs. Please check for ModRewrite support with your administrator.

Now I know that mod_rewrite works because I use them here on my blog. Both of them are on the same host under different directories with notmyblog being located under /notmyblogweb, while the new Media Failure site is located at /mediafailure. I checked all the .htaccess entries for the Media Failure page and according to all the information I can find from the Drupal forums it was correct. After some digging I finally found the item that fixed my issue:

Add this line near the end of your settings.php:
$conf['clean_url'] = 1;

It works perfectly now! Granted it should not have been that difficult to get this working, especially since Wordpress worked perfectly out of the box, but it’s nice that it works now. From what I understand it seems to be some issue in how Drupal verifies that the mod_rewrite function is actually functioning as it should. Oh well, we’ll see if they get it fixed in version 4.7, which of course looks to be coming out soon.

Now I just need to get on writing some amazingly brilliant content for my new site. Anyone out there interested in helping write reviews or tutorials let me know. I doubt I can do it all by myself.