Re: Here we go with PATHS - again!!

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 23:27, Beauford.2005 wrote: > I hope someone can put this to rest for good, cause this is just > bullshit. Every time I try to do something using any thing other than > the root directory of my website - I get these stupid path problems. > > Here is the problem this time. First off I am not using frames (if it > matters) and this particular site is on Windows 2000. The website > resides in d:\Apache\htdocs\supreme and in this directory I have a .js > file for my drop-down menu - there is also another file which I am > including using the php include directive called menu.inc. The graphics > for the menu are in a directory called images. When I go to the main > page of the site everything is great, but as soon as I try to get the > menu to work from another directory it can't find the graphics. > > I have tried d:\Apache\htdocs\supreme\image.gif. > > I have tried http://www.mysite.com/images/image.gif. > > I have tried ../file.js (this is to load the menu) > > I have even tried putting menu.inc in my php include directory. > > You get the picture - but no matter what I try it just doesn't work. I > mean really - is this that hard to figure out. Like this is every time I > work on a site I get these path problems. Am I just not getting > something here. > > Other than putting everything in the root directory (which I don't want > to do) I have no idea how to solve this. It just gives me a headache. > > TIA Try escaping your paths with double slashes, ie, d:\\Apache\\htdocs\\supreme\\image.gif or d://Apache//htdocs//suprem//image.gif might work. Regards Andrew McCombe