Hi, I'm relatively new to this module, so maybe there is a simple fix to my problem that im missing.

I have "Clean URLs" and "Path" installed so that my domain looks like this: www.domain.com/en/page-name but now that causes drupals relative URLs to be rooted to /en . I could use absolute URLs but when it comes to xml Flash the xml still looks for the files in a relative way... so the flash displays but not the content. I could work around that by creating a folder for each language /en /it /ru and place the files there, but that is just a crap work-around!

in the "Language negotiation"
If set to "None" the users cant change the language on the site
if set to "Domain name only" I get a 404 error, probably because of the "path module" because it works fine if i use node/1 yet again that still leaves me with a prefix...

Is there a way not to use the prefix? just path? considering a new page is created for each translation - I see that as making sense. any suggestions and workarounds are welcome.

Im sure this issue is discussed somewhere at length, but I faild to find anything relative by googling arround... any help would be great. thanks

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dman’s picture

dman commented

The search is not that hard to do

Relative URLs are just not going to work with clean URLs. With views, aliases, and all the possible contexts a node content could show up in - including translations - you are going to get problems.
Heck, even node/1 and node/1/edit are going to produce different path resolutions.

So you've got to use url() when making an url reference in php, and there is IIRC a Drupal.BaseURL variable if you want to make an URL in javascript.

Older versions of Flash were tricky in their handling of relative URLs - they used to resolve relative to the html instead of the swf, but that's now fixable apparently by just giving your embed a BaseURL parameter or something.
Any flash that is trying to retrieve a resource should be able to be given the full URL and enough context to sort it out at the flash end. Then the problem goes away

R.Hendel’s picture

R.Hendel commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

This issue is older than one year
I think it is solved by @dman so I will close it (works as designed)