Relative links in an "include" page

[Mr. Analogy]

If I have a page (MyIncludePage) that will be included in other pages on my
site, how do I reference links on MyIncludePage will have the right relative
link?


E.g., I might include MyInclude Page in:
Mysite.com/Page1.htm
Mysite.com/SubDirectory/Page2.htm
Mysite.com/sub/sub/page1.htm

If I want to ink to, say "MySite.com/Downloads/page3.htm"

Do I use "../Downloads/page3.htm" as the link in my includes page?
(I think ../ forces it to start the root of the site).

Thanks!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Are you using a FP include page or SSI, if SSI, then you might have to use absolute URLs, as FP will
not be able to manage link in SSI pages.

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

on some servers "parent paths" are turned off so you can't use ../ or ../../
which means "up one" folder level or "up two" folder directory.
you can set pathing from the root of the site by starting with a /. so lets
say you want to ref a page inside a folder named articles, that resides
inside another named content (which is in the root) it'd be like
/content/articles/page.htm

HTH

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[Mr. Analogy]

This is a SSI. I do *not* expect FrontPage or the server to manage the links
(i.e., change the link based on the page into which MyIncludePage got
included). That's why I want to see if there is a way to reference the root
directory.

I just realized I need to rephrase my question as : how do I reference a
link relative to the root directory?

I.e.,
MySite.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/mypage.htm

I want to have a link to MyPage.htm that works from anywhere in my site.

So, what I want is:

<root>/dir1/dir2/dir3/mypage.htm

And I don't want to make it an absolute link.


I THINK that what you use is:

.../dir1/dir2/dir3/mypage.htm

Right?

 

[Mr. Analogy]

I solved it, I think.

"/" means "root".

So:

/dir1/dir2/dir3/mypage.htm will reference <Mysite.com>/dir1/... etc.

Explained here:
http://www.goer.org/HTML/basic/links/