knowledgebase/linux/webserver/drupal notes A lot of our customers get a VPS to run {link:Drupal|http://drupal.org/}, which is a very robust Free/Open Source CMS with many optional modules and themes. 1 Installing Drupal A great user contributed guide to installing Drupal on a Rimuhosting VPS can be found here: http://quadruple.ca/installing-drupal-rimuhosting-com 1 Nice shiny clean urls I've fielded the question a few times lately about how to enable mod_rewrite so that clean urls will work. With Centos5 which is our current recommend distribution, this is easy to do. Assuming that you have unpacked drupal into /var/www/html/, you need to go to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and look for this: <Directory "/var/www/html"> In this container you need to edit: AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All This will enable the .htaccess file that ships with drupal, which contains the rewrite rules. If you not seeing this file in remember to use a command like: {code} /\var/www/html/# ls -la | grep htaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3694 May 21 13:34 .htaccess {code} Alternatively, since you do have root access, you do not have to use a .htaccess file, and can copy this file directly into your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, or into a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ which is included into the configuration. The apache documentation {link:recommends this|http://www.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html#when} for optimal performance. Although for simplicity, and ease of upgrading drupal, you may just want to leave it as is. 2008-07-07 17:22:21.0 2007-08-21 22:55:44.0