Date:  Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:01:29 -0500
From:  Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:10097] Re: /admin rewrite rule
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Actually, your easiest bet may be to make no changes whatsoever.

Is there an index.php in Drupal's admin/ directory?   If so, you should 
be able to access it by going to http://your.site.name/admin/index.php

Maybe that will be a good solution for you.

Brent Epp wrote:
> In /etc/admserv/conf/httpd.conf, there is:
> 
>   RewriteRule ^/admin/?$                  *MailScanner warning: 
> numerical links are often malicious:* https://%1:81/login.php 
> <https://%251:81/login.php> [L,R]
>   RewriteRule ^/admin/?$                  *MailScanner warning: 
> numerical links are often malicious:* http://%1:444/login.php 
> <http://%251:444/login.php> [L,R]
> 
> _Don't take my word for it_, but it would seem that changing these 
> and/or commenting them out would do what you need.
> 
> On the other hand, perhaps it's easier to change the name of the admin 
> directory for Drupal?
> 
> At 2007-06-12 17:33, you wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am setting up Drupal (http://drupal.org <http://drupal.org/>) on one 
>> of my vsites.  In
>> drupal they use /admin as for administering the site.  Is there a way
>> to disable the BQ re-write rule so /admin is passed to the site
>> instead of being caught by the webserver config?
>>
>> thx
>> -Adam
> 
> 
> Brent Epp
> mailto:brent (at mark) pdcweb.net
>