External Image Server (on Subdomain) for Logo
niaxilin - April 22, 2009 - 15:55
My first post (of many?) on the Drupal forums. Here goes...
Our site hosts images on separate servers for load balancing. I notice in includes\theme.inc that $settings['logo'] is set to base_path() . $settings['logo_path'] and I assume base_path() can't be anything different from the main URL.
Is there any alternative path, say image_path(), that could be referenced here and other places (are the other places?) in the code?
For now, $settings['logo'] = base_path() . $settings['logo_path']; will become $settings['logo'] = $settings['logo_path']; but it feels dirty.
Re External Logos
Hi, also my first post!
I had a similar problem, using Drupal 5.x dev..
I'm serving images from our FREE-User webspace at TPG to allow concurrent downloads and speed site rendering.
I also noted that the ‘favicon setting’ was doing the same thing, so I also made the same ‘dirty mod’ on that field.
I believe that its a good policy to use a fully qualified host name to specify the favicon.ico which is in the web root.
My drupal install is simply in a folder called 'drupal', as its more or less a test bed and a learning curve job.
A lot of jobs I see require CMS experience.
I had to fight with out hosts to get LOCK TABLES on our DB permissions.
I used to run my own servers, gee, I miss those days!
As it is, TPG still only offer PHP 4 and MySQL 4, so I WILL be looking for New Webhosts ASAP.
I'm concurrently doing a drupal 6.9 setup on a Mandrake server at home, and will be implementing the same changes, and possibly be working on a permanent work-around, and will post it when and if I succeed.
I will have to learn how this website works first though.
Great Site and product. ThankYou!
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