[development] base_path() not returning path to Drupal root

[Tomas J. Fulopp]

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
>
>