Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Whenever I try to set the $base_url in my settings.php file, the value is never used. Instead the the value that's used in all the links is the url used in the address bar. So, if I go to the site using localhost, all the links come up as localhost links instead of the domain I set. This is probably a good feature if base_url is left blank in the setting.php file, but I still need to be able to set the value I want.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | offline_message.patch.txt | 844 bytes | Zen |
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Comment #1
Zen commentedPatch attached.
-K
Comment #2
Zen commentedAh it's been that kinda day :S Please diregard the last comment.
This is not a bug. Links in Drupal are all relative. $base_url is primarily used when used externally - for e-mails, aggregators etc. If you want to use a single install for different sites, look into the multi-site feature and access your site using the appropriate URL.
Else you can use absolute URLs everywhere :)
hth
-K
Comment #3
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