This is not an Apache HTTPD issue. That said, the article you linked to is specifically about WordPress - defending their decision to make ALL links absolute links. I worked on a government project (using Wordpress) that required that all URLs be relative unless absolutely necessary and we had to add a plugin to undo all of that linking.
- Y On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Milo Hyson <m...@cyberlifelabs.com> wrote: > I've been using relative links in content for many years without any > trouble. It has been suggested this is a bad practice, but the reasons > given I haven't found terribly convincing. I may be wrong, but it seems as > though people are using relative linking as a scapegoat for generally bad > practices. > > Take the following article for instance: > http://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/ > > The way I see it, if broken links are being deployed then testing isn't > thorough enough. If a test environment is accessible to uninvolved parties > (e.g. spiders) then testing isn't controlled enough. If multiple paths > exist to the same content without good reason, then the architecture is > poor. > > Looking around Google, this seems to be rather representative of the > arguments. Relative links are bad because when they're combined with other > issues that should never happen the results are undesirable. That's not > good enough for me. Does anybody have a better reason? > > - Milo Hyson > Chief Scientist > CyberLife Labs, Inc. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
