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By Rjae Easton on
I apologize if this has been asked and answered - I searched a few minutes but did not find anything...so here goes. My development team uses a virtual-machine (VMware) for development. The IP address of the guest OS is always dynamic AND not registered to any DNS; therefore I can enter neither a hostname or IP address for $base_url. I need to configure Drupal to use whatever IP address has been assigned at the time.
By commenting out $base_url the links on pages e.g. admin point to valid resources. THE PROBLEM is with form-submit URLs. Links look like http://192.168.93.128:8080/~eastonr/index.php, whereas submit URLs look like http://192.168.93.128:8080/index.php - which happens to be an invalid URL.
Is there a (better) way to achieve dynamic $base_url? Initially I tried setting it to $SERVER_ADDR but that returned http:///. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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What web server are you
What web server are you using?
In general, I would think that a base_url of:
should work.
I forget the setting name, but there's a setting in php.ini that exposes all of the $_SERVER[] settings as independent variables.
that should help
[Apache 2]
i meant to say also that the '~/eastonr' portion of the url needs to be dynamic as well. it could very well be that i fat-fingered the $_SERVER testing. i will retry that approach.
if you have a sec to suggest handling that portion of the url - would save me some time.
thanks again.
it does work
the IP address + port can be dynamically set using this approach - i just finished verifying that. i'll use the Ant build to set the '/~user' part of the request uri - although some regex could complete the solution.
thanks again.
Have you seen this?
Have you seen this?
http://drupal.org/node/6554
It may help you out.
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Good call!
I wonder if that should be the default base_url.