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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a site, call it mysite.com. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mysite.com/home</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, rather than </FONT><A HREF="http://mysite.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mysite.com</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. (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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The $base_url was left, in sites/mysite.com/settings.php, as </FONT><A HREF="http://mysite.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mysite.com</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Questions/issues:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Is it really necessary to have those Drupal files in both locations (htdocs and htdocs/home)?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Shari</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Shari L. Halter</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Web Programmer, Corporate Services</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thornton Tomasetti</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">51 Madison Avenue</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">New York, NY 10010</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">T</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 917.661.7800 </FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">F</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 917.661.7801 </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">D</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 917.661.7970 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SHalter@ThorntonTomasetti.com</FONT>
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