[support] theming primary links, or absolute paths when drupal is in a sub-directory

[Cog Rusty]

Generally, if you access your Drupal site as
http://www.example.com/drupal/ then that's your site's web root.

If you use a fully qualified URL in a menu to take you to
http://www.example.com/news that will take you outside Drupal, unless
you have set up a Drupal site for http://www.example.com.

I am not sure I completely understand what you are trying to achieve
and what you are running in your http://www.example.com site, but the
usual method of using multiple domain names is to point all domain
names to Drupal's installation directory and set up respective
settings.php files for the different domains to use the same database
($db_url).

Consider
- setting up Drupal sites for all the domains or subdomains you want
(see http://drupal.org/node/147828),
- don't set up a Drupal site for http://www.example.com/drupal/,
- and use your .htaccess file to make Drupal leave alone certain paths
of your other application (http://drupal.org/node/30334).

There was a discussion about using some .htaccess tricks
(http://drupal.org/node/144643) but I wouldn't go there before trying
all the standard methods. This kind of .htaccess tricks tend to make a
setup fragile.


On 10/30/07, Amanda Bee <amanda at velociraptor.info> wrote:
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> I'm still working on this, though I suspect from my reading that the
> real solution lies in .htaccess rewrite rules.
>
> I thought this:
>
> RewriteRule ^/drupal//(.*) /$1 [L]
>
> Would work -- take paths that have the double slash and bump them up a
> level to the root of the site -- but it doesn't seem to be taking. For
> bonus fun I tried quirky variations like ...
>
> RewriteRule ^/drupal//(.*) /drupal/foo/$1 [L]
>
> And didn't get anywhere either. Am I even making sense here?
>
> Thanks,
> amanda
>
> (http://drupal.org/node/187647)
>
>
> Amanda B Hickman wrote:
> > I'm puzzling through a few things at once and starting to hit walls on
> > this one as well.
> >
> > I've got drupal set up in a subdirectory of a larger site. That larger
> > site is in subversion and I run a staging site and a few local
> > incarnations of it, which means that the site's domain name changes
> > periodically, from "staging.example.com" to "example.local" or
> > "www.example.com"
> >
> > Right now, I've got the site's overall primary links in drupal as
> > primary links, and I'd like to keep them there, but drupal is gobbling
> > up the absolute paths even though they're absolute:
> >
> > I gave the menu path as
> >
> > "/news/" and drupal points to
> >
> > "http://staging.example.com/drupal//news/"  when I'm aiming for
> >
> > "http://staging.example.com/news"
> >
> > I spent a lot of time monkeying with clean URLs on the theory that
> > they'd fix this, only to discover ... nope.
> >
> > I've looked around for a themeable function that would let me wrestle
> > links into being relative to the site as a whole, not relative to
> > drupal, but I'm not seeing it.
> >
> > This doesn't appear to be controlled by "theme_menu_links"
> > http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_links/5
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amanda
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Amanda, Bee
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