External CSS link not working

[webmommee]

:confused; How can I fix this problem. I want to be able to link to the
stylesheet on my local PC, and have it work when I upload the document without
changing the path. Here's what I'm doing now...

<link href="../docdata/costest_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
this is the code generated by Dreamweaver, I can preview in IE fine

<link href="file://///Cbo.gov/c$/mirror/fdrive/docdata/costest_style.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> this is the change I have to make for it to
work, live, on our website

[Murray *ACE*]

What is the root folder of your local site? Is it docdata? Or is it
fdrive?

(are you editing directly on the server?)

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"webmommee" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> :confused; How can I fix this problem. I want to be able to link to the
> stylesheet on my local PC, and have it work when I upload the document
> without
> changing the path. Here's what I'm doing now...
>
> <link href="../docdata/costest_style.css" rel="stylesheet"
> type="text/css">
> this is the code generated by Dreamweaver, I can preview in IE fine
>
> <link href="file://///Cbo.gov/c$/mirror/fdrive/docdata/costest_style.css"
> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> this is the change I have to make for it
> to
> work, live, on our website
>

[webmommee]

Site - CBO.gov (C:\My Documents\CBO.gov)
docdata
docimages
templates

[webmommee]

I'm not editing on the server, editing the local copy

[Murray *ACE*]

That's from your local site definition? That's the path in the field?

So - CBO.gov is the root of the local site.

What do you have in the FTP Host directory field of your remote site's
definition?

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"webmommee" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Site - CBO.gov (C:\My Documents\CBO.gov)
> docdata
> docimages
> templates
>

[webmommee]

Where do I find it. On the advanced tab of the Site definition: Acess: Local/Network

\\Cbo-gov\c$\mirror\fdrive\docdata\

[webmommee]

Our system administrator told me to just make an absolute path to the style
sheets. The root directory is www, I made a new folder (css), so the new path
is <link href="http://www.cbo.gov/css/costest_style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">

Now everything works fine.

Thanks