Drupal: Clean URLs

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You want to enable Clean URLs in Drupal 6, but the Enable bullet is grayed-out? Just enable Apache rewrite module, and you can enable this feature.

Drupal Clean URLs - greyed out

Windows hosting (WampServer)

I’m using Wampserver, if you are using something different, find out yourselg 🙂 Left click the wampserver-icon in the system tray > Apache > Apache Modules, enable rewrite_module. You’re done!

Drupal Clean URLs - Enable Apache rewrite module

Now browse in your Drupal website to Administer > Site configuration > Clean URLs. And enable the feature.

Drupal Clean URLs - Clean URLs enabled

Done.

When creating content you’re able to choose an URL yourself:

Drupal - URL path

Unix hosting

If you’re using Unix hosting, make sure your .htaccess file is present and the line “RewriteEngine on” is not comment-out.