<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> Looking at the HTML source, I see this:<br>
><br>
> <li><a href="barry/install.php">Install Barry from binary<br>
packages</a></li><br>
><br>
> <li><a href="barry/cvs.php">Compile Barry from tarball, CVS, or<br>
git</a></li><br>
><br>
> If you change that to<br>
><br>
> <li><a href="/barry/install.php">Install Barry from binary<br>
packages</a></li><br>
><br>
> <li><a href="/barry/cvs.php">Compile Barry from tarball, CVS, or<br>
git</a></li><br>
><br>
> Making it an absolute URL, the issue goes away.<br>
<br>
</div>We try to avoid absolute URLs since that limits portability of trees of<br>
information. </blockquote><div><br>
I hear what you are saying, on a private site, that is possible.<br>
<br>But once this stuff is indexed and linked all over the web, then moving it
<br>around is not as easy and incur added work or end user confusion.<br><br>You can use Apache redirect rules to change things around if you want<br>in the future.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is that an old-fashioned file-based web server idea or do<br>
Drupal web masters still try to use relative URLs when possible?<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div> <br>Drupal use relative paths "foo/bar" for some time, until we found that<br>many browsers and search engines (including Google) get confused by<br>that and keep relating relative paths to other relative paths (they would<br>
look for "baz" under "foo/bar/baz" and other nasty stuff).<br><br>So, we decided to prefix everything with a slash, and get it over with.<br>Worked well, and no more confused crawlers and browsers.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> Also, this module helps by eliminating all trailing slashes.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect</a><br>
<br>
</div>Worked like a charm.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>