[support] theming primary links, or absolute paths when drupal is in a sub-directory

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Amanda Bee <amanda at velociraptor.info>:

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> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Amanda B Hickman <amanda at velociraptor.info>:
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>>> I'm not dying to go the .htaccess route, I promise, but I can't figure
>>> out how to persuade drupal that a path in the menu like "/news/" is
>>> relative to the whole site, not relative to drupal.
>>>
>>
>> Try path aliasing, e.g. follows:
>>
>> <code file="/etc/httpd/conf.d/mydomain.conf">
>> <VirtualHost *>
>> DocumentRoot "e:\var\www\mydomain"
>> ServerName www.example.com
>> ServerAlias example
>> Alias /drupal e:\var\www\drupal-5.2
>> Alias /bin e:\var\www\bin
>> Alias /sqladmin e:\var\www\phpMyAdmin-2.6.1
>> </VirtualHost>
>> </code>
>
> I think this means that I would have to define an Alias for anything I
> want to link to from within Drupal's menus system that lives outside of
> my Drupal installation, right?
>
> That kind of defeats the point.
>

And as I've discovered doesn't do what you want from the menu code.  
However if you create a block and fill the body with the likes of ``<a 
href="/news/">News</a><br/>'' it behaves nicely.  Be sure give the 
block a nice title and you'll need to activate it once you create it.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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