Drupal 7.x

Hi there. I'm setting up a new install of Drupal 7 and have run into a problem with Drupal trying to get request URLs from Apache. I want to keep the drupal files together in their own directory, but I don't want the URLs generated by Drupal to have '/drupal7' on the front.

public_html/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* /drupal7/$0 [last]

With this setup, going to http://example.com/taxonomy/3 correctly serves me a page as if I had gone to http://example.com/drupal7/taxonomy/3; so far so good. However, the links on that page all have /drupal7 on the beginning. In order to prevent that, I did the following:

public_html/drupal7/sites/default/settings.php:

$base_url = 'http://example.com';

Now the generated links look correct: http://example.com/taxonomy/3, but there is a problem when I actually follow one of them: I get a 404 error! When I look at the 'Recent log messages' report, I see a 'page not found' log entry for the following message: 'term/3'. It seems that the first 9 characters of the request path have been stripped.

I solved this by monkey-patching the request_path function like so:

I'm building a custom theme in Drupal 7 which allows for the creations distinct main sections. Each section is comprised of pages that share common design elements (main banner, specific couloured gradient behind sub-navigation, colour of headlines and sub-heads, etc...). I was planning to use a taxonomy vocabulary called "Section" to allow author/editor users to create pages and assign them a section with a taxonomy drop down whenever a new page was added.

In Drupal 6 I would use THEME-NAME_preprocess_page(&$args) {} in template.php to grab the taxonomy term and add a variable that I could then use in my page.tpl.php to assign to the body tag however this doesn't seem to be possible and although I have tried many different methods of preprocessing, I can't seem to readily add any variables to my page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php.

I've discovered some of the changes in theming Drupal 7 and am happy to change my theming practices, I just need some direction and although the documentation indicates we can use a variable called $terms to grab Taxonomy within the template, that doesn't seem to exist in the scope of the page.

Any tips, direction, links for further ready would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

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