First of all - Kudos to Mark for his delivery and content "on the fly" last night. It was really informative and technically enjoyable.
Next, I've run into some drupal issues upon arrive at work this morning and I assume it may be related to multi-site or at least the apache webroot vs the drupal base_url as it relates to the securepages module.
Users reported the infamous WSOD when requesting a login from our home page. The logs showed a "FATAL php error in drupal_urlencode()" as undefined. This is the first I've seen this and the only thing I can remember doing was the consolidation of separate sites into a multi-site config. The only way I could get around it was to disable the securepages module.
It is important to note that we also use the clear_url modules and it appears this places redirects in the .htaccess file.
So, on to my question(s):
Here's basically what I have in my config files:
virtual server conf - webroot /srv/www/drupal
servername www.law.uconn.edu
in my sites directory undero /srv/www/drupal I have the following directories:
default
www.law.uconn.edu
www.othersite.org
In the settings file under the www.law.uconn.edu directory
$base_url = "www.law.uconn.edu"
- Am I on the correct track with this?
- In a multi-site config where should the .htaccess file be located? in the drupal install directory? the unique site directory? the sites directory? I can find no clear answer.
As securepages WAS working fine with clean_url enabled (docs say it wouldn't) are my plans for a multi-site config kaput?
Advice, suggestions, recommendation, criticism, greatly appreciated.
Thanks - Bob
ps: in my challenge to migrate our 5.18 to 6.20, would I be better off starting with a new acquia-drupal tarball?