I have built a website using drupal. Now, the base URL is http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/drupal. But I want to change base URL as http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx How do I do?
Thanks.
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Do you have access to add vhost in apache? If yes then one clean way is to add a virtualhost to map the directory where you have installed Drupal (including the drupal folder) to ServerName which is xx.xx.xx.xx and reload apache.. – Dipen Jun 7 '12 at 9:24
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Hi Dipen, How to add a virtualhost to map the directory where you have installed Drupal? Thanks. – user6919 Jun 11 '12 at 3:49
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go to yousite/sites/default and open the settings.php file and find $base_url and change it to the new value (somewhere around line 270).
NOTE : settings.php is a read-only file, you need to clear the read-only flag first to make the changes. You'll need to restart the server to update the changes.
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2I suppose there may be exotic configurations where it may be necessary, but in most cases you shouldn't have to restart the server at all - the change will go into effect immediately. – Garrett Albright Jun 7 '12 at 12:31
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when I change the base_url to my domain name. I get much error on page. for example, "failed to load resoutce". because the resource location has been changed to "domainname/xxxx/xxx.css" (original is ip/xxxx/xxx.css) why ?? – user6919 Jun 12 '12 at 9:42
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You need to check where the base installation of your Drupal site is. If it is at the root of the server (e.g. www), then you need to give
$base_url=siteroot; else if it is in some folder inside the root of the server, then you need to havesite_root/path_to_drupal_install_foldervalue for your$base_url– AjitS Jun 12 '12 at 10:21 -
There is a global variable called $base_url that you can set in sites/default/settings.php. Try changing its value.
