> I've never been able to make links that start with / work locally on my PC
> (Win98), but have used it on both UNIX and NT servers. I usually do a
> "search-n-replace" of /images with ../images when I'm working locally and
> need to see the images (like when I'm working with rollovers) -- you just
> have to remember to switch it back to /images etc. before FTPing the file
> back up.
I do not understand this problem. It seems your web server is not set
up right or something.
> Hmmm...is anyone on the list running a web server on their local system
> (like WebStar for Mac) who knows from experience that /images links work
> when your local machine is also a server? I'd be interested in knowing
> that....
I run Red Hat Linux with the Apache web server. I have never
encountered this problem WHEN I use http://...
HOWEVER, if you use FILE:///... THEN you are likely to have weird
problems, like failure to execute CGI scripts, etc. etc.
Apache is available free over the web from http://www.apache.org/ , and
included on most Linux distributions. It is rather popular!
I keep most of my images in a /icon directory, and most of my
backgrounds in a /bkg directory. On my machine, that is
file:////home/httpd/html/icon Via the browser, it is http://localhost/icon
(localhost is a valid reference to the same machine your browser is
running on. If another user hits it, he will try to load the image from
his own machine... and fail.)
One of the simpler things for web security is to set up an index.html
file in your images directory, so no one can just steal them all easily.
Sure, they can write scripts, etc. But they can't just hit
http://yourserver/image/ and see everything you have; they have to work at
it. I learned that after seeing guys do that with my icon directory!
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