They're returning 404's.

As I understand it, "/" at the beginning of a relative url means root ie<a href="
/mydirectory/myfile.cfm". If its at the end, then it points to a subdirectory ie
<a href="mydirectory/".


Steve Oliver wrote:

> When you click on the link, where does it go to?
>
> Putting a / before the page in the link will send it one level down.
>
> So if your in servername/page/index.cfm and you click on a link that
> goes to /etc.cfm it will send you to servername/etc.cfm
>
> ______________________
> steve oliver
> atnet solutions, inc.
> http://www.atnetsolutions.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Jordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:06 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: IIS question
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been given a site to work on that uses a site root reference in all
> of it's links(a href="/etc.cfm"). The links don't work on our
> development server where there was only a default web site created. So I
> created a website with the snap-on with the home directory as root, but
> the links still don't work. Any suggestions about what I'm doing
> wrong/not doing?
>
> TIA,
>
> Doug Jordon
>
> 
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