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

Wed Oct 31 17:30:42 UTC 2007

On 10/31/07, Amanda Bee <amanda at velociraptor.info> 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.

1. If you want it to always go to http://www.example.com/news, then
why can't you simply use a fully qualified URL.

2. If you want the domain to vary, then I can't see on what condition
can this varying depend (except on Drupal's installation path itself).

Hence my confusion.

> 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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