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nflauria
nflauria

Reputation: 897

How to reference a local absolute file path in html

I'm building a website locally using Apache, MySQL and PHP. I have different subfolders and I'm trying to give one absolute reference to my css file from my main header.php includes file.

Inside of header.php I have:

<link href="/Users/nicolauria/Sites/sd/css/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

The css file does not load correctly. Developer tools gives me this message "The requested URL /sd/css/style.css was not found on this server."

Any help is greatly appreciated! Nico

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9738

Answers (3)

ZearaeZ
ZearaeZ

Reputation: 905

In Which location your header.php file is located? I mean If you have your header.php file in sd folder than use your code like this <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />

Maybe this link will help you alot http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/style-html.html

Upvotes: 0

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943157

If you want to provide an absolute URI then you must:

  • Include the scheme (file://)
  • Accept that many browsers will refuse to load file: data onto a page loaded via http:/https: for security reasons
  • Accept that users on other computers won't have access to your filesystem

It is far, far better to host all the resources you need on the webserver.

Upvotes: 0

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360572

You're loading this via HTTP? Then you're bound to use only "http-space" paths, which means you can NOT include the site's document root in urls. e.g.

your site's files are physically on the server in /home/sites/example.com/html, which is defined as the document root of the site. When you visit the site and request a file, e.g. http://example.com/foo/bar.html, the web browser will send over:

GET /foo/bar.html

and the webserver will tack on the document root, producing

/home/sites/example.com/html/foo.bar.html

But note that this path applies ONLY within the webserver itself. It will never be accesssible to you in this form. You can only specify directories/files within the site's document root. That means if you requested something like example.com/home/sites/example.com/other/file.html, you'd force the server to produce /home/sites/example.com/html/home/sites/example.com/other/file.html, etc...

Upvotes: 3

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