hist : request to enable mod_rewrite
Posted by sarneil on 30 Jun 2010 in Activity log
BS's drupal prefers to work with 'clean URLs', which means that individual pages of the site can be accessed without the ?q= in in the URL path. Setting the site to work with clean URLs is something that you can normally turn on and off with a Drupal installation, but at the moment, it doesn't seem to work with the UVic server. In reading up on it, it seems that this feature requires that mod_rewrite be enabled in Apache.
I did a couple of simple tests and it appears that mod_rewrite is not enabled. This is up to the sysadmins. I wrote to helpdesk, who will escalate and I'll find out what their policy is on allowing mod_rewrite on an account, domain name etc.