Good evening, List,
I apologise for not responding. It's been a busy December and I haven't had
time to fight with httpd. In response to some comments:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can do that with just Alias if there's no dynamic part.
I may just end up doing this if .htaccess won't let me rewrite paths. I wanted
to leave apache.conf alone and have a RewriteRule in
/ClientWork/Drupal/.htaccess instead.
As I understand the documentation, Alias is a specialised RewriteRule. If so,
why is the latter allowed in .htaccess but the former is not?
On 2 December 2013 13:02:34 Tom Evans wrote:
> He only wants that to happen if the request "originates from"
> /ClientWork/Drupal/ …
I don't remember saying that I wanted to do this. (I guess this is what
elicited the 'http is a stateless protocol' response). I don't care where the
request originates from. All I care is that I can put a rule in
/ClientWork/Drupal/.htaccess that will tell httpd to handle requests to
"/sites/default/files/..." by retrieving the file at
"/ClientWork/Drupal/sites/default/files/...".
On 2 December 2013 13:02:34 Tom Evans wrote:
> You can absolutely tell Apache that requests for
> http://localhost/s/d/f/i/ should look in ~/www/CWD/D/s/d/f/i/, what
> you can't do is only do that redirection based upon what URL the
> previous request was.
I'm not sure how I gave the impression that the previous request was relevant
to rewriting current requests. Perhaps I caused some confusion when I said
that the links in question were hard-coded into a Drupal website that lived
under /ClientWork/Drupal. As I mentioned in earlier messages, I can't get any
variant of "RewriteRule ^/(.*) /ClientWork/Drupal/$1" in
/ClientWork/Drupal/.htaccess to even catch calls to /sites/default/files/...
let alone rewrite them.
On 2 December 2013 13:02:34 Tom Evans wrote:
> However, I refuse to believe that Drupal does not have a setting that
> allows you to run it at a particular location and generate the correct
> URLs, which is the correct way forward here.
> Could you ask this question on a drupal list - and not asking "how do
> I redirect XYZ to PQR", but "I installed drupal in /ClientWork/Drupal/
> and it is trying to load files from /sites/default/, what have I
> missed". There may be a required configuration or installation step
> that has been overlooked.
Assuming you get a response on the Drupal fora, it'll typically say "Install
module X", where X is an arbitrary member of a set of modules, Y, of differing
levels of stability and maintenance. Even if I can find an X within Y that does
the job, the links I'm trying to rewrite are hard-coded, so any module would
still involve having to go back and rewrite each link by hand.
I agree with you: the way forward is using a Drupal solution. Right now,
though, I need a working clone of the website so I can do the updates and
testing that I need to do before taking them live. I would rather have one to
three lines in an .htaccess file work for the time being than to have to pick
through and fix hundreds of pages.
With thanks,
Borden
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