Output absolute paths

[septentrio]

Hello,

Is there a way to output absolute paths in contao ? I mean getting rid of the <base> tag and have my urls written like "http://ww.domain-name.com/../tl_files/..." instead of having a relative path like "tl_files/..." ?

I have to do this because i'm experiencing problems with domain to subdomain redirection.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks

[Medianomaly]

One thing you can do is use the "generateFrontendUrl" hook. This hook is called any time a URL is generated by the system (of course if you have any URLs that are hard-coded -- maybe in a WYSIWYG box or something, you'll have to change them manually).

http://www.contao.org/en/hooks.html#generateFrontendUrl

It would look something like this:

/system/modules/customurls/config/config.php:

$GLOBALS['TL_HOOKS']['generateFrontendUrl'][] = array('CustomUrls', 'forceAbsolute');

/system/modules/customurls/CustomUrls.php:

class CustomUrls extends Frontend
{

public function forceAbsolute($arrRow, $strParams, $strUrl)
{
return $this->Environment->url . '/' . $strUrl; // I forget if the '/' is needed...
}

}

That's an oversimplified solution -- you'll probably want to add some extra checks to $strUrl first (for example, to make sure it isn't already absolute). But it's the gist of what you want.

For links in TinyMCE, there's an option to force those to be absolute too:
http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configu ... ative_urls
http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configu ... nvert_urls (just in case).

[septentrio]

Hi medianomaly,

thanks for your reply.
What is customurl ? where doyou find it ?

thanks

[septentrio]

So far, i have filled the fields in "DNS settings" for my images folder, plugins folder and scripts folder, but it doesn't include the modules folder.

Your scripts works, but only on href attributes, not on src attributes

[Medianomaly]

Hmm... If you need images too, I'm not sure what the best way is to do that.

There's another hook (getImage), that works similar to the one used in the code I posted, but I don't know if that would work. Images that don't need resizing might not call it (not sure though).
http://www.contao.org/en/hooks.html#getImage

Otherwise you may have to do something like add the domain to the paths of all your template code... Maybe someone knows a better way.

I wonder if you could do this all with .htaccess rules? Like rewrite all requests to force the full absolute path... If that's possible it would be even better because your paths could stay how they are now (the redirect would be invisible). Unfortunately I'm no expert on this part.