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

Wed Oct 31 15:45:37 UTC 2007

I'm not quite clear on exactly what you're trying to do either, but i'll 
take a stab at it.

If you hard code /news/ in then it will always go to /news/ whether 
you're in a subdirectory or not - it gets interpreted by the browser, 
not by drupal or anything else.

If you want it to go to news in drupal whether your drupal is at root or 
in a subdirectory then you want to use
<?php print base_path()?>news/ (you may need a slash in front of news 
can't remember)
that way if the base of drupal is at root nothing will get added but if 
it's /drupal/ and you therefore want it to go to /drupal/news/ then 
/drupal/ will be added automagically.

.s

Amanda Bee wrote:
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> I don't want drupal to do anything. If I set the path to "/news/" I want
> drupal to make a link that says <a href="/news/">Foo</a> and not <a
> href="/drupal//news/">Foo</a>.
> 
> This is obviously some kind of rocket science like I never imagined.
> 
> 
> Cog Rusty wrote:
>> On 10/31/07, Amanda B Hickman <amanda at velociraptor.info> wrote:
>> 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 still don't understand. You want that menu link to change, based on
>>> what? If you are in a http://www.example.com/drupal site, how could
>>> the menu link switch to any other domain? Based on what?
>>> If you manage to use an apache rewrite, what condition is that going
>>> to check for changing domain?
>>> I don't see any other way except depending on the domain of the Drupal
>>> site that you are currently in.
>>
>>>>> 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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