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On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com>wrote: > 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 <cove...@gmail.com> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
