Problems with HTML includes

[asprinwizard]

Hi There,
I have a really annoying problem which I'm sure there is a simple solution to
but my mind has gone blank. Basically I have a website which uses include files
to store content which appears on every page (menus, header, footer, etc). I am
not using a Dreamweaver template for this because its likely that those editing
the website will not have Dreamweaver.

The problem is that the various pages of the site are in many different
folders, and some in sub folders to that. Therefore the links to images or
other pages contained in the include files do not work because the reference
varies depending on the location of the webpage itself. The point in creating
include files this way was to ensure that changes to menus, etc only involve
changes to one file so I don't really wnat to have different includes in
different sub folders just so the images and links are valid.

I seem to remember, back in the days when I studied HTML that references can
be made starting from the root folder of the website. Can someone remind me of
how to do this? I know that ../ will reference from the previous folder and
.../../ from two folders down, but as I mentioned different pages sharing the
same includes are in different folders and subfolders so this is no good either.

I suppose I could always put the whole web address in the reference (e.g.
[url]http://www.mydomain.com/[/url] general/images/image1.jpg) but again this is
onconvenient when working offline. Can anyone help me out?

[Lionstone]

Just a slash'll do ya:
img src="/images/mypicture.gif"

The leading slash makes it a root-relative path.


"asprinwizard" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dkagib$aug$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi There,
> I have a really annoying problem which I'm sure there is a simple solution
> to
> but my mind has gone blank. Basically I have a website which uses include
> files
> to store content which appears on every page (menus, header, footer, etc).
> I am
> not using a Dreamweaver template for this because its likely that those
> editing
> the website will not have Dreamweaver.
>
> The problem is that the various pages of the site are in many different
> folders, and some in sub folders to that. Therefore the links to images or
> other pages contained in the include files do not work because the
> reference
> varies depending on the location of the webpage itself. The point in
> creating
> include files this way was to ensure that changes to menus, etc only
> involve
> changes to one file so I don't really wnat to have different includes in
> different sub folders just so the images and links are valid.
>
> I seem to remember, back in the days when I studied HTML that references
> can
> be made starting from the root folder of the website. Can someone remind
> me of
> how to do this? I know that ../ will reference from the previous folder
> and
> ../../ from two folders down, but as I mentioned different pages sharing
> the
> same includes are in different folders and subfolders so this is no good
> either.
>
> I suppose I could always put the whole web address in the reference (e.g.
> [url]http://www.mydomain.com/[/url] general/images/image1.jpg) but again this is
> onconvenient when working offline. Can anyone help me out?
>

[asprinwizard]

I knew it something simple. many thanks.

[asprinwizard]

Alright I thought this was solved. It seems not. Sure all the images display in
Dreamweaver Design mode, even on the include files themselves, but when I
preview in browser all the images are red x's. What the hell is going on
here!!!!?? I right click on the red x on properties and see that the part is
correct.

These are PHP pages running on my local testing server: localhost. Why can I
not see the images? Clearly the includes are being passed because all the text
is displayed on the page. Why no images? Can anyone help?

[Murray *TMM*]

Post a link to the page that is missing the images, please.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
[url]http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com[/url] - Template Triage!
[url]http://www.projectseven.com/go[/url] - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
[url]http://www.dwfaq.com[/url] - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/[/url] - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"asprinwizard" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dkargc$qu6$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Alright I thought this was solved. It seems not. Sure all the images
> display in
> Dreamweaver Design mode, even on the include files themselves, but when I
> preview in browser all the images are red x's. What the hell is going on
> here!!!!?? I right click on the red x on properties and see that the part
> is
> correct.
>
> These are PHP pages running on my local testing server: localhost. Why can
> I
> not see the images? Clearly the includes are being passed because all the
> text
> is displayed on the page. Why no images? Can anyone help?
>

[asprinwizard]

It is not online yet unfortunately. I have been running it on my testing
server. I have temporarily uploaded it here:
[url]http://www.skolars.com/template2.php[/url]
and it seems to work fine (the one missing image has not been uploaded). Any
clue then as to why it doesn't work on localhost?

[Greybeard_Web_Designs]

You wont be able to see the php on your local server unless you have installed php and configured it on there.

[asprinwizard]

I have an Apache server with PHP 5.04 installed on two of my machines. These includes don't work on either. Is there something I need to configure?

[asprinwizard]

Ok, I think I know what the issue is here. My local testing server is
[url]http://localhost/[/url] and all the sites I design are in subfolders to this domain.
The include files reference from the root of localhost but my website root is
localhost/RLI. However when I publish the site online obviously it will be in
the root of the domain and the images show up ok.

The result therefore is that until the site goes online no images will display
properly if they are in include files, unless I go through all the files prior
to publishing and change the references which is very inconvenient.

Is there anyway to create a subdomain on a local server. I have setup the
testing server in Dreamweaver to [url]http://localhost/RLI[/url] but this doesn't seem to
have an effect. Any suggestions?