How do you define the path which CKEditor uses to search for config / language files?

Question

CKEditor seems to look for its configuration files relative to the location it was loaded from, not the location of ckeditor.js. So loading CKEditor on the page http://www.example.com/articles/1 causes it to look for the language files in http://www.example.com/articles/1/lang/

The config file contains an attribute for baseHref, but it doesn't affect the editor resources themselves.

How do I set the path which CKEditor uses for its own resources?

Answer 1

That behavior that you describe isn't normal, for some reason CKEditor isn't identifying properly its own folder so you should set a CKEDITOR_BASEPATH variable before loading CKEditor.

It's briefly commented here: http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.html#.basePath but there might be other places where it's explained better.

A successful implementation is therefore:

<script>
  window.CKEDITOR_BASEPATH = 'http://example.com/path/to/libs/ckeditor/';
</script>

Then load the main ckeditor.js script. Note you can use root-relative paths e.g. /path/to/libs/ckeditor/ but relative paths do not work.