unfortunately, no the rest of the site should only appear under mysite.com, not mysite.com/home.
 
crazy, I know. 
 
(I think this affects the second post on this, as well)
 

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

 

From: Metzler, David [mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:26 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Change to home page location

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? 
 
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?
 
If all drupal content needs to be accessed from mysite.com/home then I'd recommend that you only keep the copy there.
 
Also, this may be slightly different depending on whether clean urls are enalbed or no....

Dave

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Halter, Shari
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:21 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] Change to home page location

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,  rather than 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.

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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