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EoghanM
EoghanM

Reputation: 26944

Portable relative URLs - folder to domain root

I want to write URL that work regardless whether the base URL is either of:

http://example.com/myfolder/

http://example.com/

E.g.

<a href="other.html">Other</a>

Should go to

http://example.com/myfolder/other.html

http://example.com/other.html

respectively,

But instead in both cases they go to:

http://example.com/other.html

This is not a problem if the base URLs are

http://example.com/myfolder/index.html

http://example.com/index.html

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 507

Answers (4)

Alex Wayne
Alex Wayne

Reputation: 187054

I suspect you were testing this with a base url of:

http://example.com/myfolder

(no trailing slash)

If there is no slash, the browser will think "myfolder" is just a file and not a folder. So click a relative url will not go into that folder.

http://example.com/myfolder/

If the base url is this, then it should work as you expect.

Usually, I prefer absolute URLs just to avoid these headaches. Just about every link in my webapps is in the style:

/myfolder/other.html

Which always points to the same place from any location.

Upvotes: 2

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655319

Relative URIs are always resolved from the base URI which is the URI of the document if not explicitly declared otherwise (see the base element). So what is the base URI in your case?

Upvotes: 3

Niyaz
Niyaz

Reputation: 54793

If you give exactly like

<a href="other.html">Other</a>

it is a relative address and it should work like that.

Remember that when you are linking to a file:

www.example.com/folder/other.html

from:

www.example.com/index.html

you must give the link in index.html as:

<a href="folder/other.html">Other</a>

That is, you have to link to the file using the relative address.

Upvotes: 1

theman_on_vista
theman_on_vista

Reputation:

Are you doing this in static HTML? "../other.html" might be a safe bet (assuming you dont get any more nested).

Upvotes: 0

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