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[John Neil <John.Neil AT uts.edu.au>]

Dave

> For the software install you have it sounds like you have Durpal 
> installed directly in the root (probably public_html), and not a 
> sub-directory. Whilst not 'optimal' this is okay -- you don't need 
> to change it, that wouldn't make our issues simpler. In this case you 
> should install Lyceum in it's own sub-directory (/lyceum, or 
> something).

That's correct  - Drupal is installed in the root and lyceum currently is 
instaleld in a subdiretory as per your install instructions on nepharim. 

> Actually we can achieve this, except... there's a few tricky cases 
> we need to resolve, probably by working through each one. The biggest 
> issue > is I don't know the Drupal clean-URL format so I can't just whip 
> something together for you. If you can send me the URL of your site 
> (off-line if that's better) that may help.

Thanks for the opportunity, I will send the url off list 
 
> Rule 1: User enters: www.mydomain.com/index.php  (or whatever 
> Drupals 'home page' is) we can write a rule to send this to Durpal. Good.

This is the current Drupal root index www.mysite/index.php
 
> Rule 3: User enters: http://mydomain.com/lyceum/login?action=logout 
> well this would normally be caught by Rule 1. Problem is it's 
> really Lyceum not Drupal. So we write a rule specifically to catch this.
> And therein lies the problem. How many Rule 3 type cases will we 
> have? I took a quick look around my site, and it doesn't look like we have 
> very many, so this may be relatively easy.

I'm not sure what constitutes 'many' in this type of situation but I couldn't 
see more than 50 cases and probably more like 20.  

> Do you have a 'test' version of you site that you can play on, or 
> is it okay to play on the main version of your site? We'll be making 
> changes that may prevent the site from being accesses temporarily. No 
> permanent damage will be done though :)

I'm happy for changes to be implemented on the live site 

> First step is to install Lyceum into a subdirectory.

Done

> Next, make sure wildcard subdirectories are turned on (probably 
> need to submit a ticket to your domain host for this).

Done

> Next, we need the .htaccess. Can you post the .htaccess as it was 
> *before* the Lyceum install, ie, one which works for Drupal.

See below 
 
#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
<FilesMatch 
"(\.(engine|inc|install|module|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)|code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root)$">
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# PHP 4, Apache 1
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# PHP 4, Apache 2
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
</IfModule>

# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www.
  # you can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one 
option:
  #
  # If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and 
uncomment the following:
  # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  # RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
  #
  # If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. , adapt and 
uncomment the following:
  # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
  # RewriteRule .* http://example.com/ [L,R=301]


  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  #RewriteBase /drupal

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.73 2006/04/14 09:08:26 killes Exp $


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