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I have a long-term path problem while developing modules.

For instance I have the following project path http://localhost:8888/mylocalproject, which (on the production server) would be http://www.project.com.

Now each time I use global $base_url or other absolute paths it only returns me the http://localhost:8888/ not http://localhost:8888/mylocalproject. For instance if I want to handcraft a logout link will give me http://localhost:8888/user/logout which is wrong, since mylocalproject is excluded.

I have all the time to hack solutions like this

global $base_url;
$needle = "localhost";
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $needle)) {
  path = $base_url."/mylocalproject";
}
else {
  path = $base_url;
}

Is there a Drupal standard solution for that?

2 Answers 2

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You should just set the $base_url in your settings file while you're working on localhost, then you can just change it when you put the site live.

The settings file is at "sites/default/settings.php" and you should add:

$base_url = 'http://localhost:8888/mylocalproject';

Obviously when the site goes live you want to change/remove that line to match your new environment.

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    or better ? global $base_url; $needle = "localhost"; if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $needle)) { //$path = $base_url."/psaldo"; $path = 'localhost:8888/psaldo'; } else { $path = $base_url; } Feb 15, 2012 at 14:29
  • actually, this didn't work for me. I cleared the cache. links to "/" are still going to localhost:8888. Anything else I need to change? Thanks
    – uwe
    Feb 15, 2012 at 16:53
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    @MotoTribe If your links are hard coded as "/" then that's how they'll stay, the $base_url is used by internal functions to construct URLs, it doesn't do any sort of replacement on hard-coded URLs used in templates/content/etc. If you're hard coding links and want to use $base_url they would look like this: $link = $base_url . '/a-link.html'. Even better though, use the l() or url() functions as @MPD has suggested as this will take care of everything for you
    – Clive
    Feb 15, 2012 at 18:06
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    If you can get a copy of MAMP pro you can have as many sites (virtual hosts) as you want with hostnames like "mysite.local". It works a treat for me
    – Clive
    Feb 15, 2012 at 20:54
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    @MotoTribe look on my first comment: use strpos php function to detect the word localhost in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and if there is, alter the path variable. Feb 17, 2012 at 12:23
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You should really use url() and l() as much as humanly possible. If you look at the source, you will see the use of base_path to tack on the proper prefix for where you have Drupal installed. This does assume you have $basepath set properly, which should include the sub-directory (as needed) and not just the hostname/portnumber. A bonus with this is that it takes aliases into account, do you don't need to do gloabl search/replace in code when you change the URL for something.

EDIT TO ADDRESS COMMENT:

$link = l("Add Content", "node/add", array("attributes" => array("class" => "shlinks")));
$shortcut_set['my_list'][] = array("#markup" => "<li>" . $link . "</li>");
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