Ubercart Quest: Clean URL for Drupal

Problem:

Product's images are not showing
One of the solutions or problem from the Ubercart's forum is Clean URLs is not enable.

Step 1: Clean URLs needs mod_rewrite to be enable

(Note: mod_rewrite is an Apache 2 module)

Type this command to see all the modules that is currently enable on Apache 2.

/usr/sbin/apache2ctl -M

Look for rewrite_module this is the mod_rewrite module that clean URL requires.

Step 2: If mod_rewrite is not enable

To enable mod_rewrite module:

sudo /usr/sbin/a2enmod rewrite

You should get this after entering the command:




Enabling module rewrite.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!

To disable the mod:

sudo /usr/sbin/a2dismod rewrite

You should get this after disabling the mod:

Module rewrite disabled.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!

Remember to restart apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 3: Check your apache2 config file
(I'm an apache2 noob so bare with me)

In the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled folder I've created a conf file that tells apache2 to host my drupal website.

Here's the general gist of what the config file, /etc/apache2/sistes-enabled/drupal.conf, have:




ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal-6.13

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all





What you need to add:



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



So it should look like this:



ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal-6.13

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all




Remember to restart apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 4: Enabling Clean URLS

Go to administer then to site configuration then to Clean URLs.

Should look like this:

home>administer>site configuration

Enable it! Ta da, you're done ^_^ (well I'm done). Now the products' images should show up.

System: Debian Lenny with Apache2

For information about mod_rewrite:
Apache module mod_rewrite

This post made possible by a mash of information from these websites:

• Clean URLs | drupal.org
• Example Clean URL configuration of httpd.conf for performance | drupal.org
• A three step process for clean url's in Drupal for Debian Lenny.