Could someone please help?
As a web developer, I expect there to be occasional issues to deal with when installing a new system like Drupal. However, this problem has me so me so angry at how much time it has wasted my time needlessly that I could spit. Please forgive me for being so upset, because I have had so much of my time wasted in this ridiculously unnecessary problem that still HAS to be solved.
All I want to do is have the base_url be a domain with the WWW. I want all links to include the "www." in the link. We do remember that, right? That's the four characters that goes between a "http://" and thew domain name. It's called "www." But in my very initial installation of Drupal with fantastic seems to have designed such a waste of time that even when I think I can easily mod it, the system purposely becomes unworkable afterward. It's just seems so NEEDLESS to be this way.
I tried editing in /includes/conf.inc
$base_url = "http://THEDOMAINHERE.com";
to instead be
$base_url = "http://www.THEDOMAINHERE.com";
But what happens? The site sends error headers messages.
So, edit it back and try editing /includes/common.inc to
function drupal_get_html_head() {
global $base_url;
$base_url = "http://www.THEDOMAINHERE.com";
(I add the last line so it has the actual domain with www.)
That works. But whenI try to change to different default themes (not even trying download stuff yet), the system refuses to let me change from the default Drupal.