Relative URLs

BrennanU · December 20th, 2007, 5:45 PM

I have a site that I can access just fine from home. At school, there is a filter set up that for some reason blocks my site. Now I usually dont have a problem with this, but if for some reason I need to access my site, I can go to servername.surpasshosting.com/~user, but this breaks all of my navigation images. Is there a way I can use relative paths and have it work on both the subfolder and the regular name?

TIA,
Brennan

**Roxy** · December 20th, 2007, 5:48 PM

By any chance from your house to your school, are you using different browsers? If so, which ones for each.

**MarkRH** · December 20th, 2007, 5:57 PM

For that to work, need to make sure all links are coded as

Code:

<a href="childdir/file.html">

to load a file in a directory below the current one

Code:

<a href="/rootdir/file.html">

to load a file with the path starting in public_html or

Code:

<a href="../file.html">

to load a file in a directory above the current one, or

Code:

<a href="file.html">

to load a file in the same directory as the current page.

Hopefully that made sense. That's what I do so my website works the same with www.markheadrick.com and www.markrh.com and my local test server.

**Roxy** · December 20th, 2007, 6:02 PM

when I right clicked on your site, you were already doing that? I'm confused.

BrennanU · December 21st, 2007, 9:20 AM

I am doing relative URLs. Go to http://sh93.surpasshosting.com/~brennan
They work on my main domain but not on this page.
They are both IE7.

**MarkRH** · December 21st, 2007, 10:41 AM

Looking at the page source, I notice a number of hard coded items that point to your domain, such as where you are loading your brand.js javascript file from. Also, I notice several IMG src tags that are hard-coded to use your domain name.

But yeah, you need to look at everything... your CSS, Javascript, IMG tags or anything that references something.

December 20th, 2007, 5:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
BrennanU Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Feb 2006 Lives in Ohio Hosted on SH93 119 posts Gave thanks: 4 Thanked 0 times	Relative URLs I have a site that I can access just fine from home. At school, there is a filter set up that for some reason blocks my site. Now I usually dont have a problem with this, but if for some reason I need to access my site, I can go to servername.surpasshosting.com/~user, but this breaks all of my navigation images. Is there a way I can use relative paths and have it work on both the subfolder and the regular name? TIA, Brennan __________________ http://www.brennanu.com is on SH93

December 20th, 2007, 5:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
Roxy URB4N 5K1LLZ Super #1 Joined in Sep 2005 Lives in Orlando, FL Hosted on SH63 2,660 posts Gave thanks: 81 Thanked 128 times	By any chance from your house to your school, are you using different browsers? If so, which ones for each. __________________ Roxanne Urban Roxy -Personal Blog SH63 - the best darn shared server!

December 20th, 2007, 5:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
MarkRH Race Surpass Super #1 Joined in Jul 2006 Lives in Oklahoma City, OK Hosted on sh102 1,222 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 86 times	For that to work, need to make sure all links are coded as Code: <a href="childdir/file.html"> to load a file in a directory below the current one Code: <a href="/rootdir/file.html"> to load a file with the path starting in public_html or Code: <a href="../file.html"> to load a file in a directory above the current one, or Code: <a href="file.html"> to load a file in the same directory as the current page. Hopefully that made sense. That's what I do so my website works the same with www.markheadrick.com and www.markrh.com and my local test server. __________________ SH102 : Mark Headrick - Blog - Gallery Pelicar \| Company of Valor \| Mysstie Wolfestar

December 20th, 2007, 6:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
Roxy URB4N 5K1LLZ Super #1 Joined in Sep 2005 Lives in Orlando, FL Hosted on SH63 2,660 posts Gave thanks: 81 Thanked 128 times	when I right clicked on your site, you were already doing that? I'm confused. __________________ Roxanne Urban Roxy -Personal Blog SH63 - the best darn shared server!

December 21st, 2007, 9:20 AM	#5 (permalink)
BrennanU Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Feb 2006 Lives in Ohio Hosted on SH93 119 posts Gave thanks: 4 Thanked 0 times	I am doing relative URLs. Go to http://sh93.surpasshosting.com/~brennan They work on my main domain but not on this page. They are both IE7. __________________ http://www.brennanu.com is on SH93

December 21st, 2007, 10:41 AM	#6 (permalink)
MarkRH Race Surpass Super #1 Joined in Jul 2006 Lives in Oklahoma City, OK Hosted on sh102 1,222 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 86 times	Looking at the page source, I notice a number of hard coded items that point to your domain, such as where you are loading your brand.js javascript file from. Also, I notice several IMG src tags that are hard-coded to use your domain name. But yeah, you need to look at everything... your CSS, Javascript, IMG tags or anything that references something. __________________ SH102 : Mark Headrick - Blog - Gallery Pelicar \| Company of Valor \| Mysstie Wolfestar

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