On 27/09/11 04:09, Carl Wiedemann wrote:

Assuming you are using Apache, you should instead use name-based virtual hosts http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/

That way you can have

http://demo.localhost http://production.localhost

and the paths will be preserved.

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It might be I am not have misunderstood the link field type or your answer but would't I have to enter http://demo.localhost/sites/all/files/mylink.html and this would break when I export and import the database onto production. What I wanted was to enter an internal link with out the hosthame.

Hope this makes sense. Iain

I'm looking at doing some work on a IndieCommerce website. Have not worked with them before, I'm told the client is insisting on using this company for hosting. Anyone have experience with them? Any feedback would be most appreciated, either on or off list, w/e.

Thanks in advance, Marty

On 27/09/2011 10:23 a.m., Carl Wiedemann wrote:

If you setup the virtual hosts, all your paths are identical regardless of the domain. Link field should be able to handle this just fine.

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Thanks Carl still struggling

In the link field it expects a URL e.g.

http://demo.localhost/fred.html

Are you saying the protocol and host are ignored by drupal?

If they are not then I cannot see how this solves my problem and it is probably my lack of apache knowledge.

I currently have two virtual site

http://myIP1/ http://myIP2/

I want to put in a link field into a content type to point to the document fred.html

If I enter

fred.html

in the link field create content for the content type the link goes to

http://myIP1/?q=fred.html on one box http://myIP2/?q=fred.html on the other box

Which of course fail because I want no ?q= in the link. What I want is

http://myIP1/fred.html on one box http://myIP2/fred.html on the other box

Are you say if I enter the server in the link this will automatically be removed?

I.e. if I don't enter fred.html but instead enter http://myIP1/fred.html it will work on http://myIP2? When exported and imported into the second site?

Thanks for your patience

Iain

On 27/09/2011 11:47 a.m., Carl Wiedemann wrote:

Do you have Clean URLs enabled? It seems necessary to avoid the q?= problem (possibly a bug in the module).

Carl Wiedemann Website design and development consulting carl.wiedemann@gmail.com mailto:carl.wiedemann@gmail.com | skype: c4rlww

No I do not, I suspect this is my problem but it is quite a big site now so I am loathed to change much before it goes live. I have contemplated writing a wrapper for the thing which provides the link widget. Something which allows you to specify internal link but figured others must have this problem before.

Iain