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Jon Mitten
Jon Mitten

Reputation: 2055

PHP image path changes when I move to local server

I have a website that works fine when deployed on a remote development server. However, when I move it to my local machine, all the images paths' are now not pointed to the right directory.

Where as <img src="/images/breadicon.png" /> used to work, I now get a 404 file not found.

When I update that to <img src="./images/breadicon.png" />, the image is found, but I don't want to have to revert back all my links when I re-deploy this site - and of course I don't want to have to work from the remote server.

The issue is, without the ., the path is perceived as http://localhost/images/breadicon.png instead of http://localhost/sitename/images/breadicon.php

What can I do to resolve all the links and have my links without ruining the code for redeployment?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1040

Answers (2)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 913

Your best option is probably to set up a web host on your local machine.

For example, if your live/remote site was http://www.example.com/, you could set up a local web host as http://example/.

I'm assuming you're on Windows and using Apache. You'd need to edit your hosts file (using notepad, running as administrator, usually found here: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) to contain:

127.0.0.1 example

Then create an Apache host config file, for example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example
DocumentRoot C:/Path/To/Site/example
</VirtualHost>

Then restart Apache and go to http://example/. Assuming you follow a standard convention for links etc, this should do the trick.

Upvotes: 1

Oswald
Oswald

Reputation: 31647

Configure your webserver such that the site can be accessed under http://localhost/ instead of http://localhost/sitename.

If that name is already used for a different purpose, create a virtual host named e.g. sitename in the webserver and edit your hosts file so that sitename points to 127.0.0.1.

Upvotes: 0

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