Drupal on a shared server

or do I need another CMS?

[camaroboy]

I recently installed the Drupal CMS on my shared server. My problem is with "clean urls". When I run the clean urls test it seems to pass ok, but when I then enable clean urls the page loses all of its design (ie. logo, color, links do not work, etc.). I know there are some server things that need to be done and my host is telling me I cant do them because this is a shared server. They then told me that Drupal was not going to work for me.

Will Drupal work on my shared server? Why is the site having this clean url problem? If Drupal will not work is there another CMS that already has clean urls?

[ahmedtheking]

Don't know much about Drupal, but I'm assuming that clean URLs are running off .htaccess. It seems that your web host has turned off the ability for you to create .htaccess files that help create clean URLs. I don't think Drupal's the problem, maybe the host. I've PM'd you a good host.

[StudioKraft]

Hello,

In addition to what ahmedtheking has mentioned, it sounds as though the .htaccess file may be working on your server but is not written properly. From your description, it appears as though the .htaccess may be rewriting the URLs for the CSS files and causing the page to display incorrectly.

If the .htaccess file in your root directory has mod_rewrite rules in it that may match the URLs for your CSS files, there needs to be another .htaccess file in your CSS directory (assuming that there is one) that turns off mod_rewrite for that directory.

Hope this helps,

SK