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

Tue Oct 30 22:02:14 UTC 2007

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Thanks for taking a stab at it. Here are some responses that I hope will
clarify my troubles a wee bit ...

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

Right, that is my drupal site's 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.

Right: a fully qualified URL will do that, but I'd have to include the
domain name (http://www.example.com). The site is moving around,
however, and the domain name could be any of ...

http://www.example.com
http://staging.example.com
http://example.local

And I want to be able to test out the menus and other changes on a
staging site before I push the drupal section live.

> 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

The rest of the site uses a frightening home-brewed content management
system developed over many years by many programmers. I'm in the process
of streamlining that, but first I'd like to get a few things into drupal
and working well (our forums, for one thing).

> 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).

Drupal works fine under each of these domain names, and the separate
settings.php files in sites/example.local and sites/staging.example.com
do a fine job of pointing it off to different databases depending on
where I'm accessing it from. That part works fine.

> 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.

I'm not dying to go the .htaccess route, I promise, but I can't figure
out how to persuade drupal that a path in the menu like "/news/" is
relative to the whole site, not relative to drupal.

> 
> On 10/30/07, Amanda Bee <amanda at velociraptor.info> wrote:
> 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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