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

[Cog Rusty]

On 9/29/07, Tomas J. Fulopp <tomi at vacilando.org> wrote:
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>  Cog,
>
>  That was not a solution.
>  For http://example.com/foldera/folderb
>  base_path() . file_directory_path()
>  returns /foldera/folderb/files
>  only if Drupal is installed in the root of example.com


Yes, that was clearly wrong. Probably just file_create_url() would be better.


>  If Drupal is installed in folderb then
>  base_path() . file_directory_path()
>  returns /files
>  and that means that the full link (in browser) is
>  http://example.com/files
>  which is the problem I described.
>
>  I am trying Moshe's suggested solution that uses
>  url(file_directory_path(), NULL, NULL, TRUE)
>  which generates absolute http paths, which is a drawback, but I think it
> will be the solution.


This looks good, but don't forget to try it without Clean URLs.


>  Cheers,
>
>  Tomas
>
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>  Cog Rusty wrote:
>  On 9/21/07, Tomas J. Fulopp <tomi at vacilando.org> 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
>
>  file_directory_path() is a disk file path relative to drupal, and
> base_path() is an URL path. So, using base_path() .
> file_directory_path()
>
> - when I access the site as
> http://example.com/foldera/folderb it
> gives me "/foldera/folderb/files"
> - when I access the site as http://subdomain.example.com it give me "/files"
>
> But because it is an URL path, it is the same place and it works in
> both cases as far as the web browser is concerned. Is there a reason
> for your module to know the physical disk paths?
>
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>  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
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