>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.
No. It means its a top level directory. Webmasters can configure web
servers to understand different top level directories. It sounds like the
server you are dealing with has been configured to understand /images as a
top level directory.
To refer to a directory that is *above" another directory, you would use
../ not /dir.
You don't say what kind of web server it is, but check the configurations
to resolve the mystery.
Kayla
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