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Forcing Absolute URL Paths

Permalink May 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM

This may seem like a strange problem, but I need make the relative URLs generated on a page into absolute paths.

For example, I need to have the stylesheets, javascript, image paths, and other links resolve to a full URL.

How can this be accomplished? I know it's possible...

shadowcomputers replied on May 25, 2011 at 7:42 am Permalink Reply

In PHP you have defined variables of:
BASE_URL =http://www.example.com
DIR_REL = directory_of_c5_install (This is empty if installed on the root of the domain)

If you are creating themes you can always use:

$this->getThemePath();

rbarcus replied on Sep 5, 2011 at 5:47 pm Permalink Reply

What I ended up doing was putting the following line of code into my page template:

<base href="<?php BASE_SSL_URL . DIR_SSL_REL ?>" />

I defined the BASE_SSL_URL and DIR_SSL_REL in my site.php file.

travistanderson replied on Nov 8, 2012 at 10:56 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks shadowcomputers, that was a big help. Sometimes the simplest stuff is the hardest to find.