On Sep 15, 2010, at 5:47 PM, ext Nigel Pickering wrote:

> What's the correct directory structure for OpenLayers to work correctly?

http://docs.openlayers.org/library/deploying.html

covers this.

> One possible way might be:
> 
> website_dir (html files)
> lib_dir (contains OpenLayers.js plus others)
>       img_dir (contains some png files)
> css_dir (contains default OL style.css plus others)
>       img_dir (contains more png files)
> 
> Why do you need two img directories?  Many of the images are the same.

Historical reasons. Particularly, some controls were written before we
used CSS to style things.

> The img dir below OpenLayers.js seem to be hardwired.  

Controllable via OpenLayers.ImgPath, automatically determined relative
to OpenLayers.js -- if it's single file, it's assumed to be in ./img,
and if it's multi-file/dev, it's assumed to be in ../img.

> The img dir below
> style.css looks like it can be changed within the css file.

Paths in CSS are relative to the CSS file.

> Clarification would be great.  It should also go in the FAQ.

This is already written in the documentation. It isn't frequently asked
just because one person asked it.

-- Chris


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