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color=#0000ff size=2>Are all the pages in the drupal site going to have /home in
front of them or was the idea that only the entry page of drupal needed a to be
at /home? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=538382021-10112006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>You shouldn't need (nor would I recommend) two copies of
the drupal distro files. The /files permissions problem is probably
because it's root and it's looking for mysite.com/files when you want it to find
mysite.com/home/files or the other way around. The permisssions error may
just be indicating that the file doesn't exist? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>If all drupal content needs to be accessed from
mysite.com/home then I'd recommend that you only keep the copy there.
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color=#0000ff size=2>Also, this may be slightly different depending on whether
clean urls are enalbed or no....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=538382021-10112006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><BR>Dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Halter,
Shari<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 10, 2006 11:21 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
support@drupal.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [support] Change to home page
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a site, call it mysite.com. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>My site lives in the following directory on a Debian
linux server: /export/devhome/mysite.com/htdocs. Drupal was
installed here. It ran fine.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Administration deemed, after the site was in place,
that site home page needed to be changed to </FONT><A
href="http://mysite.com/home"><U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>http://mysite.com/home</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>,
rather than </FONT><A href="http://mysite.com"><U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>http://mysite.com</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>. (The URL
MUST appear exactly this way) So I made a directory, /home, under
htdocs. [I've been told by our sysadmin that Apache mod_rewrite, symbolic
linking and other server redirect methods wouldn't work].</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>My home page would initially not run here (complained
first about includes, then modules) so I had to make a separate copy of mostly
everything (includes, modules, misc, etc. everything except for database) in
htdocs and duplicate it in /home. It now works fine, from both
locations. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>The $base_url was left, in
sites/mysite.com/settings.php, as </FONT><A href="http://mysite.com"><U><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>http://mysite.com</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Questions/issues:</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Is it really necessary to have those Drupal
files in both locations (htdocs and htdocs/home)?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. My "Administer" -> "Settings" page in
Drupal is complaining that it no longer has access or permissions in the /file
directory, despite my having used chmod 755 . to adjust permissions on the
directory and the files within.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Shari</FONT> </P><BR><BR><BR>
<P><B><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Shari L. Halter</FONT></B> <BR><FONT
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Web Programmer, Corporate Services</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thornton Tomasetti</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>51 Madison Avenue</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>New York, NY
10010</FONT> <BR><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>T</FONT></B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
917.661.7800 </FONT><B> <FONT face=Arial size=2>F</FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2> 917.661.7801 </FONT><BR><B><FONT face=Arial
size=2>D</FONT></B><FONT face=Arial size=2> 917.661.7970 </FONT><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>SHalter@ThorntonTomasetti.com</FONT> </P><BR><BR>
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