Vrolijk's place

Photographed on Moscow's Tverskaya ulitsa. When they said that they could deliver the car in any colour, they did mean any colour.
This is also the first picture uploaded to the website. I just finished configuring Drupal to set up a picture gallery and to have the Content Creation Kit available. One thing that proved a bit complex was switching to clean URLs. This needs an apache rewrite rule and the ones on Drupals site did not seem to work. The process of debugging rewrite rules can be rather frustrating, but the format is straightforward and by switching on Rewrite logging I could see what url was being rewritten.

So in short, add;
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9


and check the output. In my case the rewrite needed to exclude the document root.
RewriteRule ^var\/www\/drupal\/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


And don't forget to add the rewrite rule to the 443 https site as well.