[support] How to add Link in navigation?

[Bala Krishnamurthy]

The link I posted early on in the thread describes in some detail the
scenario the author was trying to address and the rationale for his hack.
No one bothered to read it, I guess.

Here is the problem I was trying to address.

1. Single system running httpd daemon (web server), hosting single drupal
site along with multiple non-drupal web apps (many built internally, some
external FOSS). With the site as the (single) portal, we needed to provide
menu links from within the drupal site to these different non-drupal apps
running on the same machine.

Relative paths would be the way to go, but drupal (6.22) does not allow
menu links to non-drupal 'nodes'. The author has presented a screenshot of
the drupal error when that is tried. Full URLs are ugly, but I would have
tried it if it worked. It does not. Why?

2. The drupal site is accessed from many contexts:
(a) External: by registered domain name, through public DNS servers
translating name to IP
(b) External: by IP
(c) Internal: LAN: by hostname (this is the way the system, locally running
named daemon etc are configured)
(d) Internal: by IP (the 192.168 series)
(e) Server: localhost
(f) Server: 127.0.0.1

and so on and on and on...

A single Full URL will not work in another context, besides having to deal
with the ugliness of changing the entire context.

I looked and I saw the author had already solved the problem with the
simple hack allowing non-drupal relative paths in the menu. I am hardly a
drupal expert, and if someone has better ideas, I would be thrilled to
listen.

This is my last post on the thread unless someone has something useful to
add.

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Best Regards,*
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* Bala Krishnamurthy*
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