Re: RE: trash last message ,this ones right I think

Thanks Tom and sorry I didn't mention it properly at first,, I was trying to analyse the problem. is it becuz the first part of the referenece being the ../ in <body background="../www/img/background.jpg"> the ../ wants to take the browser into illegal territory above the root? because we are starting from /htdocs/util so the ../ would try to go back to /htdocs which is above the root (/htdocs/www) illegal territory. just tryin to understand it thanks , Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Peck" <tom@masaclaw.co.nz> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] RE: trash last message ,this ones right I think > The problem is that they are completely different websites, from the web > browser point of view - even though they are so close to each other on the > server... You should have mentioned this was a sub domain site :-) > > If you REALLY don't want to copy the image from the www folder to the util > folder, then you have to use: > > <body > background="http://www.consumergrapevine.org/img/background.jpg"> > > So that the browser can reach the image file. > > Tom > > > > At 17:30 10/07/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >Hello again, > > DOCUMENT_ROOT is...... /htdocs/www > >I have a php file ( showdatabases.php) in my subdomain area /htdocs/util/ > >it loads up just fine: and if you click it, you will see my database > >structure if you like..:) > >http://util.consumergrapevine.org/showdatabases.php > >I have images stored in /hdocs/www/img/ right now (of course i could move > >them, and fix all references to them) but I like them there because I can > >refer to images in pages in /www/ with background="img/bgpic.jpg" ...of > >course this works just fine becuz /img/ is just down from /www/. > >but now I have pages in subdomains as menitoned above like: > >/htdocs/util/showdatabases.php > >and of course I want to refer to images from those subdomain pages too,,and > >of course > >I don't want to have another dir with the same pics in them..something > >like... /htdocs/util/img/ > >becuz I already have the pics in /htdocs/www/img/ and if I make another sub > >domain called /htdocs/stuff , I don't want to have to copy the pics AGAIN > >into /htdocs/stuff/img > >right? So,,, (yes I may be getting to the end now..) how or where should I > >put my pics so the /www/ and /util/ and /stuff/ guys can use them as > >background pics? > > > >what would the body tag look like? > ><body background="../www/img/background.jpg"> doesn;t work > >what will? > ><body background="What??????"> > >thanks again, > > > >Ken > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >