Re: Relative and Absolute Address

From: Roland Hall (nobody_at_nowhere)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 00:58:01 -0500

"Nick K." wrote in message news:e27sppqQEHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
: I recently began maintenance work on a production web server that is
located
: in the root directory of a web server. I moved this into a sub web on my
: local web server in order to do work on it. I found that there is an
include
: file that references images:
:
: <img src = "/images/Header.gif"
:
: What worked correctly on the production server breaks on mine because of
the
: absolute address "/images". I removed the absolute address and changed
that
: to relative "images". This works in some cases but not in all because some
: of the asp pages are in sub folders and all include the same include file.
:
: I believe there is addressing like "~/" in .Net that would look in the web
: application directory but this doesn't seem to work in asp. Does anyone
have
: a way to address a gif file from the web application level and not the web
: server level?

Is this ASP or HTML? 

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Roland Hall
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