Use relative urls in Joomla menus

Question

Hi SO,

I have joomla site which is located in mydomain.com/somefolder/otherfolder/TheSite. I have created a rewrite rule to invisibly redirect all requests beginning with mydomain.com/TheSite to this url. It works fine.

My problem is that the urls that my menuitems point to are the old mydomain/somefolder/otherfolder/TheSite/stuff. If they were relative urls, it would work.

My question: How can I force joomla to use relative urls for the menuitems, or use the urls I explicitly specify?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to make Joomla produce only relative URLs is to edit the core method "_" of the JRoute class:

JRoute::_()

This is called by Joomla application and extensions to generate consistent URLs.

It is found in:

libraries/joomla/methods.php

Making Joomla spit out relative URLs probably isn't the best way to do it. Making the absolute URLs point correctly would.