[support] Change to home page location

[Metzler, David]

Are all the pages in the drupal site going to have /home in front of
them or was the idea that only the entry page of drupal needed a to be
at /home?  
 
You shouldn't need (nor would I recommend) two copies of the drupal
distro files.  The /files permissions problem is probably because it's
root and it's looking for mysite.com/files when you want it to find
mysite.com/home/files or the other way around.  The permisssions error
may just be indicating that the file doesn't exist? 
 
If all drupal content needs to be accessed from mysite.com/home then I'd
recommend that you only keep the copy there. 
 
Also, this may be slightly different depending on whether clean urls are
enalbed or no....

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Halter, Shari
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:21 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Change to home page location



I have a site, call it mysite.com.  

My site lives in the following directory on a Debian linux server:
/export/devhome/mysite.com/htdocs.  Drupal was installed here.  It ran
fine.

Administration deemed, after the site was in place, that site home page
needed to be changed to http://mysite.com/home <http://mysite.com/home>
,  rather than http://mysite.com <http://mysite.com> .  (The URL MUST
appear exactly this way)  So I made a directory, /home, under htdocs.
[I've been told by our sysadmin that Apache mod_rewrite, symbolic
linking and other server redirect methods wouldn't work].

My home page would initially not run here (complained first about
includes, then modules) so I had to make a separate copy of mostly
everything (includes, modules, misc, etc. everything except for
database) in htdocs and duplicate it in /home.  It now works fine, from
both locations.  

The $base_url was left, in sites/mysite.com/settings.php, as
http://mysite.com <http://mysite.com> . 

Questions/issues: 

1.  Is it really necessary to have those Drupal files in both locations
(htdocs and htdocs/home)? 

2.  My "Administer" -> "Settings" page in Drupal is complaining that it
no longer has access or permissions in the /file directory, despite my
having used chmod 755 . to adjust permissions on the directory and the
files within.

Thanks, 
Shari 




Shari L. Halter 
Web Programmer, Corporate Services 
Thornton Tomasetti 
51 Madison Avenue 
New York, NY  10010 
T 917.661.7800  F 917.661.7801  
D 917.661.7970  
SHalter at ThorntonTomasetti.com 



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