More about this - I thought perhaps the user could manually set $base_url in his settings.php file. He did that -- but it did not solve the issue! See the messages from fuzzion at http://drupal.org/node/176939 Seems like a serious issue also for other users that have Drupal installed in subfolder(s), so I hope somebody comes back to me on this. Best regards, Tomas Tomas J. Fulopp wrote:
I have one other question I am pondering for a crazy long time - I wonder if it's a bug in the core...?
An user has Drupal installed in www.example.com/foldera/folderb/ and in there a files folder ( thus www.example.com/foldera/folderb/files/ )
In my module, I need to determine the path to the 'files' folder relative to the domain name (example.com)
So I've used file_directory_path() .. that gave me just 'files'. Then I've used base_path() hoping that it would give me /foldera/folderb/ this way base_path() . file_directory_path() but the result was /files
I see this issue was discussed at length at http://lists.drupal.org/archives/support/2006-03/msg00042.html but there are no clear conclusions, and anyway, that's a thread from March 2006. So I wonder whether there is a clean solution for this.
I'm on Drupal 5.2, btw.
Tomas