Posted by hameerabbasi on November 16, 2012 at 11:15am
Now, I have two sites sharing the same Drupal codebase, one at sites/default, the other at sites/site2.com. What I want to do is (primarily):
Make each sites' public files inaccessible to the other.
Redirect URLs like http://www.default.com/sites/default/file.pdf to a custom, clean path like http://www.default.com/releases/file.pdf and http://www.default.com/images/image.png
Also, I'd like to set up a multisite, but not a traditional one. I'd like, for example forums.default.com to host just the forums for the same site (Drupal default ones), so whenever I click on Forums in navigation, I get redirected to it. Or images.default.com for images, wiki.default.com for the book pages (wiki). Possible?
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I've done something similar
I've done something similar in terms of creating my own clean download URL's. You might want to checkout hook_file_download and create a menu router.
I can't remember the exact code I used, not on this machine at the moment, but essentially I created a menu router called:
document/%
The ID passed could be your FID or your filename.
I find issues with filenames are that they're never consistent and if you're working with other sources to provide you with them they can be difficult to manage.
Instead I created a new content type called document. In the document content type I added a File field allowing a single file to be attached to that node.
Then I created a custom menu router, as described above, and link the node ID - not the FID. The reason I link the NID was that the FID can change if you update the file with a new one as fid will increment. If you refer to the NID your download asset will always contain the same URL across your site.
Hope that helps!
Steve