Hi

I have a problem with Clean URLs since upgrading to Drupal 5.1.

My root site URL is www.example.com/drupal/

As an example, on the page www.example.com/drupal/node/51

I have an internal link such as:

click here

But if the user clicks on this link, the browser tries to go to:

www.example.com/drupal/node/node/28

which is not a page, so it goes to the home page instead.

If I start from the page URL www.example.com/drupal/?q=node/51 then the links work fine.

All my links are set up like this. I'm sure they used to work. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

(I have enabled Clean URLs after running the server check and the Path module is enabled)

Bill.

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billtubbs’s picture

billtubbs commented

Sorry, the html code for the internal link did not show up in the above bug report. anyone know how to include html code in a bug report without it being pre-processed?

Let me try this:

<a href="node/28">click here</a>

kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented

Did you uncomment this line in .htaccess?

#RewriteBase /drupal

billtubbs’s picture

billtubbs commented

Thanks. No that line was commented.

However, I just uncommented it and it doesn't seem to have solved the problem. Are there other things that need to be checked to get this working? I thought I could just enable the two modules and be in action. I'll re-read the help page on clean URLs. Any other things I should be doing?

I am writing the link properly am I: <a href="node/24">click here</a>

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billtubbs commented

As far as I can see the problem is with the way I am writing link URLs. The method shown above works fine except when Clean URLs are activated. Then the extra '/' throws the relative path off.

Is there no way of specifying short paths such as this when putting an local link on a page? Or do I have to write out the full absolute URL like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/drupal/node/40">click here</a>

I can't see anything about relative path referencing. Anybody know? It seems silly with this excellently simple Clean URL system not to be able to use it for links.

jonny_noog’s picture

jonny_noog commented

Hello,

Just wanted to report that I too am experiencing this issue when attempting to use clean urls with internal links created within pages. If I create a link within a page like:

<a href="node/1">link</a>

Then the actual link will become:

http://www.somesite.com/node/node/1

But if I create a link like:

<a href="/node/1">link</a>

Then I end up with the correct:

http://www.somesite.com/node/1

I am very new to Drupal, so I really don't know exactly what is going on here but it seems like the problem is related to the link being somehow treated as relative unless one adds the initial "/" into the link at the start. If any guru feels like expanding my knowledge of this issue, that would be awesome.

I have tried playing around with RewriteBase in my .htaccess, but it doesn't seem to make a difference, I have also tried setting $base_url in settings.php, but this also doesn't seem to make a difference. Other than this issue, clean urls seem to be working as expected.

I am using a fresh install of Drupal 5.1 with Apache 2.2.4/PHP 5.2.3, Drupal is running on it's own virtual host under Apache.

ricabrantes’s picture

ricabrantes commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Issues resolved, Closed..

Zorga Lina’s picture

Zorga Lina commented

It seems that once you enable "clean URLs", the url() function will generate a fully-qualified URL based on the Drupal MENU, not your actual file structure.
For example if part of your content on a node (call it 'MYPAGE') is a link which references a .pdf file, with "clean URLs" enabled you will get the url "http://host:port/root/MYPAGE/myfolder/mydoc.pdf" . The pdf files are in root/myfolder, and with relative urls I had just Using Pathfilter, One should not change .htaccess RewriteBase, it won't help anyway. Asking users to add Rewrite rules to .htaccess seems excessive. Changing $base_url as the above post mentions also doesn't help.