[kwlug-disc] Drupal issue my Google-Fu is not strong enough to answer apparently

[unsolicited]

'feature'?

Can you explain?

The only thing I could think of was index.php not being set as the 
default file - given the thread participants, I didn't think that 
explanation likely.

I know nothing of drupal, but the only thing I can think of that 
explains Brent's problem and solution is that at time of repository 
install/configuration, the presence of index.php was not detected, so 
not built into those files. Otherwise, I'd a thought an Apache restart 
would restore expected functionality. Since it evidently didn't ...
(and it being likely others will run into this problem)

'feature'?

Can you explain?


Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 07/11/2011 8:05 PM:
> It is probably the clean url feature then.
> 
>> On 2011-07-11 8:02 PM, "R. Brent Clements" <rbclemen at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:rbclemen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for all your help.  I solved the problem by wiping the
>> /var/www directory clean, deleting the database, and starting
>> over.  Something about not having the .htaccess file in place
>> during installation is apparently the issue.  Should have
>> followed directions closer I guess
>> 
R. Brent Clements wrote, On 07/11/2011 5:43 PM:
> Just installed Drupal 7.4 on a virtually fresh Ubuntu 11.4 install.
>  The installation went relatively smoothly and I ended up on the 
> default page logged in as the administration user as I would
> expect, but every link I click sends me to a completely blank page
> (WSOD apparently) UNTIL I go into the address bar and add index.php
> manually into the page address.  But I have to do this for every
> click.  Is there something I should be doing to the Drupal or
> Apache configuration to make this work?  I have not made any
> changes to the modules on drupal yet.  All help I found for this
> points to specific modules causing the problem, but I haven't added
> or even enabled any yet.