I have a site, call it mysite.com.
My site lives in the following directory on a Debian linux server: /export/devhome/mysite.com/htdocs. Drupal was installed here. It ran fine.
Administration deemed, after the site was in place, that site home page needed to be changed to http://mysite.com/home http://mysite.com/home , rather than http://mysite.com http://mysite.com . (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].
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.
The $base_url was left, in sites/mysite.com/settings.php, as http://mysite.com http://mysite.com .
Questions/issues:
1. Is it really necessary to have those Drupal files in both locations (htdocs and htdocs/home)?
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.
Thanks, Shari
Shari L. Halter Web Programmer, Corporate Services Thornton Tomasetti 51 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 T 917.661.7800 F 917.661.7801 D 917.661.7970 SHalter@ThorntonTomasetti.com
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