Package: drupal7 Severity: important This is relevant to the Debian package because Drupal is installed for multi-site by default on Debian.
When a user uploads a file (e.g. an image attachment), the URL is of the form http://mysite.com/sites/mysite.com/files/image.png This just seems excessive, it is painful to type, and it also hints that the site is in a virtual hosting environment. It causes problems when migrating content from one site to another, as all links have to be changed. Even worse, people can construct URLs to access files/images from other virtual hosts, which may incorrectly give the impression that site A has published some content that was really published by site B. The Drupal manual gives some suggestions about how to use Apache alias or mod_rewrite to allow shorter URLs, but that is just a hack, because the full URLs still appear under the names of uploaded attachments There is a Drupal bug report too: http://drupal.org/node/1902322 and many discussions about the problem, some with patches or hacks: http://groups.drupal.org/node/10211 This module looks relevant, but it should not be necessary to use a module to control the attachment URL: http://drupal.org/project/attachment_links This is the manual page about file locations on the server, and it also has discussion about the problem: http://drupal.org/node/53705 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
