Drupal and Tiger's blojsom

okay, I figured this out. The issue is with the .htaccess file that drupal uses and probably only figures in when having clean urls enabled.

So, the basic rewrite in .htaccess is

# 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]

This tests whether the requested filename (your url) is a real (f)ile or (d)irectory and by virtue of the "!" condition it does not apply the rewrite rule if there is a valid file or directory requested.

The blojsom folder is a real location (/weblog) so the rewrite rule doesn't apply and the url is reachable. The url (/weblog/ username) is not an actual path in the directory structure but is generated by blojsom so the rewrite rule was being applied.

To get around this add the following directive before the rewrite rule

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !weblog/*

This checks the requesting url and doesn't apply any rewrite rules to any urls that start with weblog from the base url.

An additional followup for posterity - in addition to the weblog rewrite you will also need a rule for another dynamically generated path so you will get styles, images, etc.

ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !blojsom_resources/*

Message was edited by: Austin Sloat