Drupal 7 Multiviews Error fix
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Posted by kitt at 19:50 on 12 January 2011
Installing Drupal 7 for a project, received a 500 Server configuration error.
Looking in the Apache error log, I saw the error:
[Wed Jan 12 19:40:24 2011] [alert] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] /var/www/httpdocs/.htaccess: Option Multiviews not allowed here
Turns out, in the apache2 config file, the following is not sufficient in the Directory section:
AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
In particular, the MultiViews option is needed:
AllowOverride Options=All,MultiViews FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Comments
Comment it out in .htaccess
I think a possibly easier way (if you don't need Multiviews turned on) is to edit Drupal's .htaccess file on lines 16 and 17. Note the comment on line 16 "Multiviews creates problems with aliased URLs and is not needed for Drupal." so I just commented out the next line which was trying to remove Multiviews anyway!
#Options -Multiviews
Thanks for posting on this!
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