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There is a bit of frustration with trying to get Drupal working on a GoDaddy Linux shared hosting plan, specifically the "Clean URLs" feature. I don't pretend to understand it, but in case anyone else is struggling with this, here's how it went for me:

1. For starters, I was porting an existing Drupal from another site over to GoDaddy. The previous installation had "Clean URLs" working fine.
2. I moved the code over to GoDaddy, updated the database settings, and was happy to see the home page come up.
3. Sadly, that is ALL that would come up. Any other link gives a 404 Error page.

So today I'm fiddling a bit with my hosting setup, and part of that involved shuffling my Drupal installation from the root to a subdirectory. Which caused the "clean urls" not to work.

Now back when I first migrated my Drupal to GoDaddy, I had problems with clean urls not working. Which resolved itself and to this day I don't know why. Today it was something different.

What I ended up needing to do, was to uncomment the RewriteBase directive in htaccess. Once I did that, things started working. For the curious, here's how I got there: