Re: Absolute / relative paths problem

On Friday 16 March 2007 01:49:18 Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 1:30 pm, Oliver König wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have got a website on a remote server. All files on the website use
> > absolute paths to other files and images:
> >
> > Document root (in Apache is):
> > /www/htdocs/
> >
> > For example the file index.html in /www/htdocs/ has an image:
> > <img src="/images/img.png">
> > and a link to another page:
> > <a href="/folder/page.html">page</a>
> > Apache then looks at /www/htdocs/images/img.png for the image and
> > at /www/htdocs/folder/page.html for the file.
> >
> > I downloaded all files to /www/htdocs/ on my Notebook. I opened Quanta
> > 3.5.6. I created a new Quanta project and in "Directory Settings" I
> > defined /www/htdocs/ as the main directory and inserted all files
> > from /www/htdocs/ into the project.
> >
> > Problem:
> > When I open a html file in Quanta with the VPL editor or the preview the
> > images do not display and the hyperlinks do not. It looks like Quanta
> > cannot handle absolute links. How can fix this problem without changing
> > all references from absolute to relative?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Oliver
>
> This is funny. First I thought you were dealing with temp files, then I
> re-read it. Quanta does handle absolute links. The problem is you not
> differentiating between the file tree and the server tree. You have
> absolute document root links - "/images/img.png" and absolute file
> linkes -  /www/htdocs/folder/page.html. So the question is, what
> does "absolute" men to you? 
I mean absolute document root links.

> Quanta is inherently in your file system, not 
> your web server and interprets absolute in reference to your file system as
> it is not privileged to know you intend to mirror a server system...
Does that mean Quanta does not handle absolute document root links. In 
Dreamweaver I never had a problem with the absolute document root links.

> First of all it is recommended not to use absolute references in your site
> for this very reason. 
It would take years to change all the links in my website to relative document 
root. the advantage of the absolute document root links is that I can move 
any html file to any directory or subdirectory below document root and all 
links and refenrences will always work.

> Quanta can also deal with projects setting a project 
> preview which is typically used to see PHP through a local server. Provided
> you have Apache running this works, and it should work without it for HTML
> as it is just setting a reference. Alternately you could set a <base> tag
> too, but then that's just another way of making things interesting with
> what you're doing.
I don't have Apache running on my notebook (but I could do that if needed). 
So, what should I do now?



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