Is the referring page in the top directory?
> I have a new web client, I'm taking over running their site,
which is only
> a few months old. I'vve just downloaded the html and image files to my
> local drive.
>
> I wasn't expecting any problem, as before bidding on the job I had glanced
> at the source and it looked pretty clean. But now that I've downloaded the
> files to my local drive, I find something very peculiar.
>
> When I open up the homepage on my system, nearly every image is broken.
> Almost all the paths in the code seem wrong to me. That is, the referring
> path defined in the code to the images directory, which is one level below
> the homepage file, is preceded by a slash, like this:
>
> ="/images/hbmbackground.gif"
>
> instead of
>
> ="images/hbmbackground.gif"
>
> so the image breaks in my browser. But when I view it online, the image
> is
> displayed. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain what is
> going on here: I had always thought that if a path was defined with a / in
> front of the directory and file name, that meant that the directory was
> _above_ the page.
>
> What is odd is that some of the images show up even though their path is
> preceded by a / It even varies depending on whether I view the html file
> on a Mac or a PC.
>
> The situation is the same with the site's internal links to various pages;
> the are all preceded by a / and they don't work locally.
>
> Apparently this is okay on a UNX server? But the client has been editing
> and revising the site locally on PCs, how are they doing that?
>
> Barry
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