>Barry,
>
>If the files are edited on a PC then the
>"/images/hbmbackground.gif" would be translated to
>"C:\images\hbmbackground.gif". When opened in a browser from the
>local page, the path is translated to
>"file:///C|images/hbmbackground.gif". In that case what they're
>doing is editing the HTML file in one directory and calling the
>graphics from another directory off the root.
>
>Unix servers are very particular about how the directories are referenced.
>"images/hbmbackground.gif" would call the image from a sub-folder
>under the current one, while "/images/hbmbackground.gif" would
>call the image from
>the direct path: /home/yoursite/[htdocs]/images/
>
>Tp fix it on your local system, create an upper-level folder
>called C:\images (on a PC) or an upper-level "images" (on a Mac)
>and drop all the pics in there.
Jim, unfortunately I don't think that nice simple solution will work in
this case :>)
This site's structure is something like this
index.html
/image
section1 with various html files
/images (used in section1 files)
section2 with various html files
/images (used in section2 files)
etc.
There is a "main" image directory, and then every section of the site has
it's own image directory. And the sections can go down several levels. So
with your approach I would have to create on my local drive alias
directories of images for every image directory on the site. A lot of work.
And then every time I added a new image to the site or revised an image I
would have to make sure it was in my alias image directory and the "real"
image directory. This will lead to confusion and errors on my part, I'm
sure.
If the original site designers had only used relative paths in the first
place, all this could be avoided. The files would work on someone's local
drive and on the server.
Why use absolute paths in the first place?
Barry
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