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I have installed Drupal on shared hosting. Drupal is installed in the public_html folder of an Apache user directory (UserDir). Unfortunately, I notice that Drupal always defaults its administrative links to the root, for example: http://www.domain.com/?q=admin. I don't want this, since my site is located in the user directory. Therefore, I want Drupal links to look like: http://www.domain.com/~sitename/?q=admin. How do I get this to happen when the url contains a tilde?

Is there a setting(s) I can change to make a global adjustment?

Thanks in advance, Doug

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  • Uncomment and change the Base URL in your settings.php file to include the full site URL with tilde and username
    – jsheffers
    Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 13:08

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You have a variable ($base_url) for this in settings.php, in /sites/default usually.

Set $base_url to match the address to your Drupal site:

$base_url = "http://www.example.com/~stef";

Hope that helps!

PS: There is also a url setting in .htaccess you may want to look at if the above does not work.

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  • It might be useful to add the .htaccess setting to your answer, just in case this solution does not work for other people looking at the same question in the future.
    – Chapabu
    Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 9:46
  • Yes, please let me know exactly what to do with the .htaccess, because I reset the $base_url, but am still having problems.
    – Doug
    Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 14:55

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