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Relative Links [message #29662]

Sun, 08 January 2006 12:27

pisi

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I need FUD-Forum to use relative Links, because it must be reachable by multiple Host-names (internal URL, external URL, ssl, non-ssl).

The used Version is 2.7.3.

If I set

WWW ROOT = "/"

then it works perfectly in every Browser, except IE.
IE is not able to handle

<BASE HREF="/">

.
It also seems, that this is not W3C conform usage of the BASE-tag.

What is the correct way to make FUD-Forum use relative Links?

I apologize if this Question is already answered elsewhere and I did not found it, but please denote me the place where to find the answer.

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Re: Relative Links [message #29675 is a reply to message #29662]

Mon, 09 January 2006 14:56

Ilia

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Rather then doing what you did you can make PHP retrieve the hostname and populate the WWW_ROOT with it. One suggestion would be to modify GLOBALS.php to have WWW_ROOT = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/";

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Re: Relative Links [message #29677 is a reply to message #29675]

Mon, 09 January 2006 15:03

pisi

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There is an apache with mod_rewrite in front of it. So this may not work. I could hack it and detect the connection from the rewrite-host and set the ROOT manually.

But isn't the URL also at 300+ places in the template-files?

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Re: Relative Links [message #29679 is a reply to message #29677]

Mon, 09 January 2006 15:09

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Well, the only place where the full url is used is for HTTP redirects. You can do a slight modification to the compiler.inc and make it replace the {FULL_ROOT} with '.$GLOBALS['WWW_ROOT'].' rather then its value.

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Re: Relative Links [message #29707 is a reply to message #29679]

Tue, 10 January 2006 11:45

pisi

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Thanks for your proposal.

One thing I still do not understand:
What ist "<BASE HREF="/">" used for?
It works without it.
(What problems may be introduced by omitting it?)

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Re: Relative Links [message #29711 is a reply to message #29707]

Tue, 10 January 2006 15:23

Ilia

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Base href normally contains the entire WWW_ROOT which is http://...
it is used to have the browser automatically prefix all links with the forum's location. This allows links to be much shorter, especially when the forum is installed in a separate directory.

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