> -----Original Message----- > From: lightbulb432 [mailto:veerukrishnan@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:40 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: What are URLs relative to? > > > Thanks for your response. That makes sense. > > What might be the reason, then, behind the quotation from > that webpage in my > original post? Why would you need to define all links > absolutely rather than > relatively? If the URLs are always relative to the error page > URL which is > always in the same location regardless of the requesting URL, > then is there > really an advantage to relative vs absolute URLs for the reason they > mentioned? Or am I missing something in all this? It's a long time since I actually used an ErrorDocument directive but as far as I am aware, apache issues a *redirect* to the error page in response to the request for the missing URL. So the browser address changes to the error-doc URL and then it's just as if you requested the error-doc directly. In that case, the links in the error-doc could be relative and the quotation would be inaccurate... However, maybe I'm wrong - maybe apache *proxies* the error-doc... then the browser address would not change and the relative links wouldn't work. Why don't you set up the experiment and report back the results - I'd be interested to know... Having said all that, it is always a good idea to use absolute URLs in links because it makes the page more portable - you can move it up and down the directory hierarchy without having to worry about changing all the links. So I would do that anyway and then the rights and wrongs of the original question become irrelevant. Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > Thanks. > > > > Boyle Owen wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: lightbulb432 [mailto:veerukrishnan@xxxxxxxxxxx] > >> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:36 AM > >> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: What are URLs relative to? > >> > >> > >> What are relative URLs relative to? For example, if you > >> define an error page > >> in .htaccess and you have relative URLs in the error page > >> itself (although > >> I've heard it's better to have absolute URLs in there), are > >> those relative > >> URLs resolved relative to: > >> > >> a) the physical location of that error page > >> b) the location of the requested URL (e.g. site.com/friendlyURL) > >> c) the location of the rewritten URL (e.g. > >> site.com/subdir1/subdir2/page.abc?hello=true) > > > > Answer: > > > > d) the location (ie, URL) of the error page > > > > eg, if the error page is at http://server/error/404.html > and the link is > > to "../index.html" then the URL of the link will be > > http://server/index.html > > > > Rgds, > > Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > >> > >> I saw the following from > >> http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/custom404error.ht > >> ml, which is > >> the reason behind this question: > >> > >> "Since your 404 page might be served up from any subdirectory > >> of your site, > >> make sure all links and image sources are defined absolutely. > >> For instance, > >> use href="/index.html" instead of href="../../index.html"" > >> > >> Thanks. > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://www.nabble.com/What-are-URLs-relative-to--tf2957180.htm > > l#a8272516 > >> Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Users mailing list archive > >> at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > >> Server Project. > >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > > > > > > This message is for the named person's use only. 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