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.htaccess on UK2 hosting - or a workaround?

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Fri, 30/11/2007 - 23:06 — dowdinsk
Hi, I'm new both to Drupal (since starting out with greenman&dokumori's NMX419, NMX420) and to hosting in general, and I can't get a .htaccess file sorted to successfully parse in Apache hosted on a shared server at 'UK2.net'. What I've heard so far from UK2 support is that mod-rewrite isn't allowed, therefore my assumption is that .htaccess isn't ever going to work for me. I have single instances of Drupal & Joomla! installed sharing the same database (with different prefixes), but haven't managed to create a multi-site installation for Drupal to share the installed codebase. I'm guessing that a possible workaround might be to install Drupal to each of the Sites folders for each and every separate sub-domain I wish to create, but am kind of living in hope that there might be an easier fix. I'm hoping someone might have been there and done it? Regards, ... Steve Dowding IT Services http://www.sdit.org.uk part of Common Knowledge http://www.commonknowledge.org.uk/
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Sat, 01/12/2007 - 20:00 — NikLP
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Well...

...to be honest, if you're hosting Drupal (or anything) on a server that doesn't support mod_rewrite, you're pretty much boned. I would consider moving hosts if at all possible (or at least threaten your host with that). Why the hell would they not have mod_rewrite installed?! Crazy people.
Tue, 04/12/2007 - 18:52 — dowdinsk
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Crazy people?

...well certainly very cautious. Perhaps, as providers of shared hosting understandably so, I don't consider myself competent to judge. In the meantime, my ticket having been escalated to 'senior' level, UK2 have confirmed, "Mod_rewrite... is disabled for security reaosns{sic} and at present there are no plans to enable this feature. We are aware that some customers are requesting this be allowed, however we're busy investigating how we can achieve this with the current system in place." So no CleanURLs, and no hope for my attempted tinkerings with setting the path to BaseURL in settings.php either I imagine. My experimenting with multi-site installation can go onto the back burner (unless any new suggestions come in). I'll probably come to pester some of you at January's Limehouse TH drop-in about good hosting providers. ... Steve Dowding IT Services http://www.sdit.org.uk
Wed, 09/01/2008 - 11:56 — Andy_uk2

Webhosting Update

Hi, I came across this thread and just thought I'd let you know that we (UK2) have just done a major update on the webhosting platform and we do offer mod_rewrite and PHP safe mode off as standard now on all new sign-ups. We also have an easy installation script for drupal (as well as other popular scripts). Cheers, Andy UK2
Thu, 10/01/2008 - 14:46 — gpk

Sounds like UK2 may be

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