[support] Change to home page location

[Larry Garfield]

Let me make sure I understand.  Your sysadmin insists that http://mysite.com/ 
be nothing, and that http://mysite.com/home be what everything thinks is the 
home page?  

Step one, get a new sysadmin because this one is dumb. :-)

When that fails, alias your front page (whatever it is) to the path "home".  
Yes, all <front> links (such as breadcrumbs) will still point to an empty 
path, because that's the way it's supposed to work.  You could probably write 
a module to auto-forward path '' to path "home" fairly easily (hook_init(), 
probably?).  I don't know of an existing way to do that, but that's probably 
how I'd go about it given silly constraints like that (unless  it's because 
you have some sort of flash ad at your web root, in which case the sysadmin 
should be shot for wanting a flash ad as a front page for a site in the first 
place).

On Friday 10 November 2006 21:56, Greg SBC wrote:
> I thought of this too, but wouldn't all the home links in breadcrumb and
> such still point to www.mysite.com, which is not what is wanted. Want home
> link to link to /home. Without mod_rewrite to change www.mysite.com
> requests into www.mysite.com/home requests (presumably because something
> else resides there), this is a tough situation to handle.
>
> Greg
>
>   _____
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Benjamin Melançon
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:23 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Change to home page location
>
>
> unfortunately, no the rest of the site should only appear under mysite.com
> <http://mysite.com/> , not mysite.com/home.
>
>
> In that case roll everything back, if you can, to before you started
> copying things (if the original is working, maybe you can just delete the
> home directory).
>
> Then enable the path module and edit the page you use as your home page,
> and give it the URL alias "home"
>
> If you have a blog-style front page, a URL alias home for <front> might be
> possible...
>
> - ben
>
> member, Agaric Design Collective
> http://AgaricDesign.com - "Open Source Web Development"
>
> person, People Who Give a Damn
> http://pwgd.org - "building the infrastructure for a network of everyone"
>
> On 11/10/06, Halter, Shari <SHalter at thorntontomasetti.com
> <mailto:SHalter at thorntontomasetti.com> > wrote:
>
> unfortunately, no the rest of the site should only appear under mysite.com,
> not mysite.com/home.
>
> crazy, I know.

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