[support] URL changes in 4.7

[Alejandro Exojo]

Hi.

I am very worried about upgrading my site to 4.7, and the (complete?) drop of 
the "base" element in this version. I agree that "base" is not perfect, and I 
am suffering 404 errors in my logs, so a fix is welcome. I copied the site 
installation to my local machine, and but I still have two problems:

1. Most URLs are broken.

It seems the update.php has some rules to change URLs written by users in 
nodes and comments, but here it didn't worked. The script forgets to change 
URLs written like this:

	<a href="./foo/bar">something</a>

So here, all my links in the content are broken. I think I can do something 
passing sed to a database dump, but still is a horrible pain.

2. The site is a lot less flexible.

Say I have my drupal installation in example.net/, and before I do a real 
upgrade, or while I'm testing a theme, I copy it to my local machine, and I 
do the changes there. The site is now in localhost/drupal. It worked just 
fine in 4.6 or previous, but if URLs now are always absolute, a setup like 
this will not work anymore. Or I am missing something?


I am very surprised by this, because there is no explanation in UPGRADING.txt, 
nor in the update.php text, nor in the 4.7.0 announcement, and in the new 
settings.php is written that $base_url the variable is optional, but I have 
it uncommented, and I don't see any changes. :-(

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.

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