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Jason
Jason

Reputation: 542

How map html/css included files to file root not URL path

How do I make the following code map to the file path /my-file.php instead of the URL path which is /projects/here.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="inc/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

This line attempts to include the file /projects/inc/style.css which does not exist when it should include the file /inc/style.css.

I have used my .htaccess file to redirect /my-file.php to /projects/here which is then mapped back to /my-file.php to create a 'clean' URL.

I don't want to have to use ../ as in my particular set-up (this is a simplified version) it would create more work than should be necessary. I expect this will need PHP somehow.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 664

Answers (2)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 542

What I chose to do was to set a variable that when set, PHP will set another variable to ../ and I put <?php echo $var; ?> just before the link and so $var is ../ and will thus solve this issue. This could be changed to use the absolute URL at any time, but this fits with my criteria.

In other words, just before every relative URL (that causes an issue - a minority), I have added <?php echo $var; ?> and so if I set the correct variable at the beginning of the page which points out that this page is a subdirectory, then $var is set to ../ which means that it will be pointing to the correct file to include.

This is by no means an ideal answer, but for my particular situation, this is what I was required to do.

Much thanks to the following answer (which I upvoted) which helped me come to this conclusion (but did not forfill my critera): How map html/css included files to file root not URL path

Upvotes: 0

Hanky Panky
Hanky Panky

Reputation: 46900

Why take so much pain and implement a redirect or rewrite. You can simply provide the absolute url of your css file.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/inc/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

Upvotes: 1

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