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Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Cog Rusty cog.rusty@gmail.com:
On 10/31/07, Amanda Bee amanda@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.
- If you want it to always go to http://www.example.com/news, then
why can't you simply use a fully qualified URL.
- 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.
You seem to miss that Amanda is incorporating Drupal into an existing system and she wants the existing URL to work within the Drupal menu system. The Drupal menu system is doing its magic with the URL so that the relative /news/ becomes q=/news/ instead. You also miss that Amanda has more than one URL to apply her magic to so she cannot hard code the host data to the reference.
Actually, Cog (is that a real name, cog rusty?) got me started. Reading up on RewriteCond and wildcards got me as far as ...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/drupal//.* RewriteRule (.*) /$1 [L]
I'm halfway there. Or three quarters of the way there. Nine tenths. Now what I've got is that the menus link to "/drupal//news/" and the page loads the content that also appears at "/news/" sitewide. Which of course has forced me to realize that what I really want is not URL rewrites, but actual redirects. Still, this keeps the site intact as a whole so it is plenty good enough.
Next up, I'm thinking I might need to get my bicycle overhauled (get it? rusty cog? are you not doubled over laughing now? I sure am)
Thank you, effusively.
Perhaps some php coding using http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_link/5 could solve the problem. But a tag list references in a new block could also suffice.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
- -- Amanda B Hickman (p) 917 655 2579 (s) amandabee (a) amandahlinc (w) http://velociraptor.info