[development] Accommodating a second base_url

[Daniel F. Kudwien]

> I think everyone who responded subsequently is missing the 
> point that the change of $base_url was to address all the 
> places in the content, blocks, views, etc. that use $base_url 
> to build the url for something, not only for the banner. The 
> links, if the site is requested as 
> mydomain2.com/drupalsubdirectory have to all say that, and it 
> doesn't (in my experience) build the $base_url with a 
> subdirectory automatically. I didn't know it would change 
> based on the domain changing, which is good to find out, but 
> that doesn't solve the problem that it had to be set manually 
> in the first place because of the subdirectory, and that all 
> the links that use a full url have to use the requested domain.

$base_url contains the domain and the base path (the actual subdirectory).
Actually:

  $base_url = $base_root . $base_path;

(hence, why I linked to the actual conf_init() function that does it)

Drupal figures all of that automatically out for you.  If it doesn't, then
you have a serious problem in your server configuration.  Which in turn
would mean that you are working around an issue that normally does not
exist.

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