Regarding the following from the handbook:
The tolerant Base URL
Submitted by weitzman@www.dr... on March 18, 2004 - 02:34.
Instead of using a hard coded domain as your $base_url in the includes/conf.php file, you might want to use
$base_url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
if ($dir = trim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '\,/')) {
$base_url .= "/$dir";
};
This has the advantage that whatever domain the user used to get to the site, he will maintain throughout his session.
I not sure I understand what this does. Let me explain my situation and perhaps someone can tell me if this would work.
My site is on a server at school. The url is something like
http://servername.dept.collegename.edu/~mystudentusername/mysitename/
I have registered a domain name - mysitename.com - that points to the url above.
I would like for all url's to show as mysitename/?blahblah... rather than
servername.dept.collegename.edu/~mystudentusername/mysitename/?blahblah...
Is that what this code does, or am I totally off base?
