“Changing the value of $root.” – Forum Thread – Discuss

- hoopy
- 20 Oct 09, 7:47 am
- Comment #1

I had a site that was on a shared server and had a url like this during development: http://174.24.56.42/~foo/. Now that we’ve got the site live it’s url is http://somedomain.com/ and the value of $root is http://somedomain.com/~foo/. This works just fine w/ or w/o the “~foo/” part… it would just be nice if it wasn’t there. How would I go about changing this?

- Makenosound
- 20 Oct 09, 8:07 am
- Comment #2

You can manually override the value of $root by changing line 4 of index.php. Something like:

define('DOMAIN', 'somedomain.com');

- michael-e
- 20 Oct 09, 10:31 pm
- Comment #3

@hoopy: I am not sure what’s your problem. But I wouldn’t advise to edit core files without any need. so it would be good to have a more comprehensive description of your problem.

Generally Symphony doesn’t save the root anywhere but determines the root “on-the-fly”. So moving a website should be painless (if you don’t break any links – in your pages’ XSL they should always be defined as relative links or by using the $root parameter).

- wjnielsen
- 21 Oct 09, 1:33 am
- Comment #4

A way to affect the domain name value without editing core files

I’m working on a multi-domain system (aka ninja) for symphony. I needed to 1) allow for local development and 2) have the the domain name change depending on which site was being accessed. In my case if one goes to parkcitiestownhomes.com $root shows up as lardnergroup.com, the parent company. So I created some Global Parameters in my master.xsl file that I hope might help you (see below). I use $parent-website-url where you might normally use $root.

<!-- master-domain is used to filter out non-ninja friendly results and replace them with the satellite domain -->
<xsl:param name="master-domain" select="'lardnergroup.com'" />


<xsl:param name="top-level-domain">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.com')">
            <xsl:text>.com</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.org')">
            <xsl:text>.org</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.net')">
            <xsl:text>.net</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.local')">
            <xsl:text>.local</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.info')">
            <xsl:text>.info</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'.us')">
            <xsl:text>.us</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:text>NULL</xsl:text>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="parent-website-url">
    <xsl:value-of select="/data/website-structure/entry/domain-name[../sort=1]"/><xsl:value-of select="$top-level-domain"/>
</xsl:param>


<xsl:param name="satellite-site-domain">

    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($root,'http://www')">
    <xsl:value-of
        select="substring-before(substring-after($root,'://www.'), $top-level-domain)" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:value-of
        select="substring-before(substring-after($root,'://'), $top-level-domain)" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>

</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="satellite-site-name">
    <xsl:value-of select="data/website-structure/entry/title[../domain-name/@handle = $satellite-site-domain]" />
</xsl:param>

Hope this helps.

Symphony.